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Intermediate-range nuclear missiles are understandably of more urgent concern to U.S. allies in Europe and to the Soviets than to the U.S. itself. Such missiles are designed to fly no more than 3,000 miles, which puts all U.S. territories except westernmost Alaska out of their range. Most Soviet citizens and every European, however, are vulnerable. To make intermediate-range missile negotiations even trickier, the bargaining that resumes this week in Geneva concerns reductions in a Soviet arsenal already in service, while the NATO missiles that might be cut are yet to be deployed...
When a job opened up at the U.N. in the summer of 1981, Kirkpatrick hired her former student. But his relations with Kirkpatrick had become strained, U.N. insiders say, and he found himself with little to do except serve on the disarmament committee. Kirkpatrick was reportedly irritated by Adelman's brash writings, including an article in Harper's that compared the "royal incompetence" of Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere with Shakespeare's Richard II. Members of the U.S. mission talk about "the Ken problem," his tendency to promote simple solutions to complex issues. "He bubbles over...
...Illinois, death row is up on a bluff in a sandstone prison opened in 1878. The 49 current inmates have a 19th century landscape artist's view-the Mississippi River and miles of rich farmland beyond-except for the bars and razor wire. Menard Correctional Center (pop. 2,600) is the principal industry of Chester, Ill. (pop. 8,000). The inmates, two of whom are scheduled to be electrocuted this spring, are alone in their cells for at least 21 hours a day. When they are in transit, once a day to the law library and once...
Since Iran's unsuccessful attempt to invade Iraq last summer, the Iran-Iraq conflict has once again become "the forgotten war"-except for citizens of the two countries, who continue to suffer from the bloodletting that began when Iraq invaded Iran in September 1980. Iranian leaders still boast that they will sweep across to Iraq's western frontiers, eventually overthrowing the regime of President Saddam Hussein. But so far, Tehran has managed to capture only a thin sliver of Iraqi border territory as a result of its offensive last summer, at a cost of an estimated...
...their enthusiasm, the network news staffs still have a hard time telling an economics story except in terms of its impact on individuals. Further, they often fail to recognize that their propensity for human interest, and seemingly for bad news more than good, can have unintended political consequences. Which story more truly reveals the state of the economy and the performance of Reaganomics: the drop in inflation from 12.4% in 1980, the year before President Reagan took office, to about 5% in 1982, a change that is often conveyed flatly and numerically? Or the simultaneous rise in unemployment from...