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If Poland's ill-fated democratic experiment had a capital city, it was surely the Baltic port of Gdansk. Solidarity, the independent trade union, was born in the city's sprawling Lenin shipyard in August 1980. When the government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski crushed that movement last Dec...
King has clearly staked out the right on fiscal and social issues. In a two-man race, Dukakis would inherit by default the left, a constituency he has not yet clearly earned. Riding on a crest of popularity, Dukakis has successfully ducked substantive discussion of the key issues in the...
Such distress is inevitably politically devastating; just ask defeated presidents Gerald Ford or Jimmy Carter, both of whom were done in by blue-collar unemployment. Blue-collar unemployment under Ford hit 11.7 per cent, lingering at 9.4 per cent on election day. Under Carter, the figure rose from 6.9 per...
Last week, amid offers from Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi to provide troops to protect Seychelles "from U.S. threats," two of the five arrested mercenaries were paraded for a programmed press conference. Fated for a show trial and under heavy guard, they wore handcuffs that bit into their wrists. To no...
Reagan tried to distinguish his proposal from a similar but ill-fated attempt by his predecessor to offer something novel to the Soviets. In March 1977, Jimmy Carter sent Cyrus Vance to Moscow with an ambitious scheme to redirect the SALT talks by asking the Soviets to make deep cuts...