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...popular uprising in East Germany's streets last week, the biggest such challenge since 1953, presents Honecker with a far graver crisis than the refugee tide. It threatens both to fracture civil order and to splinter the once monolithic regime. The confused leadership ricocheted between stern warnings and appeasing gestures. As Honecker greeted visiting Chinese Deputy Prime Minister Yao Yilin, the official news agency ADN warned that "there is a fundamental lesson to be learned from the counterrevolutionary unrest in Beijing." But the Politburo's subsequent statement suggests that many within the ruling elite were drawing different conclusions from...
Affluent parents who worry about the threat of kidnaping or sexual abuse by the babysitter are discovering that a graver danger to their children may be lurking in their own backyards. So far this year, twelve Phoenix youngsters under age 5 have drowned in residential swimming pools, twice the number for all of 1988. With 22 deaths of young children, Arizona is the No. 1 state in child drownings...
...beleaguered government of West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl is most vulnerable to these pressures. To stave off graver trouble for Kohl, who faces an uphill battle for re-election in December 1990, the U.S. and Britain reluctantly agreed to put off until 1991 any decision about the future of the short-range (80 miles) Lance nuclear missile. Public opinion in West Germany solidly opposes replacing the U.S.-made Lance with a newer missile capable of hitting targets 280 miles away. "It's doubtful the Kohl government could survive next year's elections if it is associated with a decision...
Gossip columnist Liz Smith summed it up when she wrote, "Even if Trump is the truest, most flamboyant child of Mammon yet produced at this waning moment of the 20th century, I like his style." New York Times architecture critic Paul Goldberger took a graver view: "He has yet to commission a really serious work of architecture. If he has a style, it is flashiness. It's a malady of the age. Trump just represents it the most." Characteristically, Trump responded by sneering that Goldberger was unqualified to judge his buildings because he wore cheap suits...
Sound familiar? In fact, the Soviet Union may face a graver problem this year than the one in the U.S., where medical debris and sewage have washed up on beaches around New York City and New England. Authorities, for example, outlawed swimming last month in the Sea of Azov, 600 miles south of Moscow, after a local sewage system accidentally spilled raw waste into the water not once but twice...