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...over Chinese objections to Soviet lapses in ideological purity, each fiercely cold-shouldered the other. It was Mikhail Gorbachev who stepped up overtures to his populous and powerful neighbor three years ago. In a 1986 speech in Vladivostok, the Soviet leader offered to create "an atmosphere of good-neighborliness," and to do so "any time and at any level." Soon after, Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping said he would meet with Gorbachev, provided that the Kremlin resolve three specific issues: border tensions, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the Vietnamese occupation of Kampuchea. Moscow began moving on all three, and last...
...Deng-Gorbachev summit will have a daunting list of issues to resolve before any grand hopes for an era of good feeling in the Far East are realized. Working out details of a new government order in Kampuchea will be difficult enough. Larger dreams of transforming Indochina from "a battlefield to a marketplace" or reconciling North and South Korea lie well in the future. But the 1.4 billion people of the Soviet Union and China have good cause for some quiet celebration. At the very least, they can mark the beginning of the end of a dark...
...Food and Drug Administration announced last October that it would allow promising but unproven treatments for AIDS to move onto the market more swiftly than other new drugs. Last week the agency made good on that promise. It said it would approve an aerosol drug, pentamidine, for treatment of a deadly form of pneumonia that is a leading killer of AIDS patients...
Since the 1960s we have had extraordinary freedom in this country, and we are seeing the good and the bad sides of the same coin. We've had tremendous prosperity. In many ways we have fulfilled the dream of the old utopian societies of the mid-19th century. But the other side of the coin of prosperity is money fever and the vanity that is the undoing of all the characters in Bonfire...
...were almost over when I called it the Me decade. I don't deal in predictions, but you appeal to my vanity, so I'll talk about it anyway. I think that in the '90s we'll probably see a good bit of relearning, even though it might seem boring. It's in the attitudes of college students now. I sense they are already voluntarily putting the brakes on the sexual revolution -- not screeching to a halt, and not just because of AIDS...