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...spectacle of Gorbachev facing the anger of a hungry nation has led George Bush to decide that he is ready to consider asking Congress to waive the Jackson-Vanik Amendment, which bars Moscow from most-favored-nation trading status until freer emigration is allowed. Though Gorbachev has greatly loosened emigration restrictions, the Administration has insisted that the new policy must be written into law before trade limitations can be lifted...
...retribution from former communists. Others are looking for solace in nationalism or embracing populist politicians who gloss over the level of pain that will accompany the transition to market economies. "These are difficult times everywhere," says Chris Mattheisen of K.M. Associates, an independent consultancy group in Budapest. "People are freer but a lot more insecure...
...from a suspicious communist regime. Now the problem for Poles, Bulgarians and Romanians is to obtain visas to the West or even permits to visit one of the other countries in Eastern Europe. Says Andrzej Misiok, a Pole seeking a visa to Greece: "In reality I am not much freer than before...
...fact of the matter is that equality with men is not a particularly appealing prospect to most Japanese women right now. Educated young women, those most likely to lead a revolution, tend to see their male peers as dull corporate drones. Women, meanwhile, with comparatively freer schedules, have more time to cultivate their interests. As a result, there is a growing perception gap between the sexes. A much discussed phenomenon known as Narita divorce illustrates the problem: upon arriving back home at Tokyo's Narita Airport, fresh from their honeymoons, many worldly young women, shocked to have discovered the narrow...
...Mayor Harvey Gantt is trying to deny Jesse Helms a third term in the U.S. Senate. For WMCs in such contests, references to black marks on their opponents' records are clearly out of bounds, as are allusions to crime and welfare dependency, which might have racist overtones. Blacks are freer to flirt with racial rhetoric. In the primary battle between black former Federal Judge Alcee Hastings and ex-Ku Klux Klan leader John Paul Rogers to be Florida's secretary of state, Hastings got a laugh last month by quipping, "If ((Rogers)) doesn't burn crosses in my neighborhood...