Word: going
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CLINT BLACK: KILLIN' TIME (RCA). Real nice, unassuming, go-to-meeting country music by a new Nashville hotshot. Black sounds like Randy Travis with a few more years of book learning and a cozy way with a melody...
...SUGAR by Alec Wilkinson (Knopf; $18.95). Every winter, roughly 10,000 West Indian men go to harvest sugarcane by hand in South Florida. The author decided to see how these migrants earn their pay and came back with a story more bitter than sweet...
...exaggerated. But when Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze brought a letter from Mikhail Gorbachev to Washington last week, it had U.S. officials worried. What if it contained some bold proposals? That might force a curiously hesitant Administration to decide how far and how fast it wants to go toward nuclear-weapons agreements -- or even to make up its mind on what, if anything, it should do to help Gorbachev survive...
...Soviets are "raring to go," said a senior U.S. official, "we're not so raring." That has begun to disturb not only the Soviets but many American foreign policy specialists and Congressmen as well. They fear the Administration is passing up a historic opportunity to move beyond the superpower confrontation and risking the danger that if Gorbachev is not helped, he will fall and be replaced by a hard-liner. Senate majority leader George Mitchell charged last week that Bush and company seem "almost nostalgic about the cold war." To many, the Bush team seems stubbornly reluctant to move beyond...
Ironically, that is exactly what he did in applying perestroika to foreign affairs. Gorbachev knew where he wanted to go and how to get there. He moved first to improve U.S.-Soviet relations, which he considered pivotal. To prove his bona fides, he withdrew Soviet troops from Afghanistan and supported regional settlements in Africa and Latin America. He followed up by renouncing intervention in the affairs of Eastern Europe. His steady march toward nuclear-arms reduction often caught the U.S. off guard and vastly impressed Western Europe. His sure hand on foreign policy has been so convincing that some American...