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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PARTING THE WATERS: AMERICA IN THE KING YEARS, 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch (Simon & Schuster; $24.95). The first half of a two-volume biography as social history puts Martin Luther King Jr. at the center of the American revolution in race relations that began with sit-ins and Freedom Rides and ended with President Lyndon B. Johnson maneuvering a stalled civil rights bill through Congress...
...been joined by so many pilgrims and tourists that there is often no room in the inns. But the boom and bustle came to a rather sudden halt in December 1987, when the intifadeh arose among the Arabs in Israel's occupied territories. Last Christmas only 5,000 visitors -- half the normal turnout -- attended Bethlehem's elaborate holiday observance. In the year since then, an estimated 300 Palestinian Arabs have been killed in the uprising, eleven in the Bethlehem area...
...Sprint hastened the move. Both companies can undercut AT&T's tolls on long-distance calls because their networks use fiber- optic cable almost exclusively. The light-wave lines, which transmit a signal faster than ordinary cables and produce clearer sound than satellite communications, form less than half of AT&T's telephone grid...
...DAUGHTER Rana, 17, is shy and not keen on throwing stones, but she is pleased that other young Palestinian women have joined the confrontations. Rana spends her days reading books of philosophy and poetry. Like all youngsters in the occupied territories, she has missed a half-year of formal education because the Israelis shut down government-run Palestinian schools as collective punishment for the intifadeh. Her mother keeps her inside the house for safety and to help with housework...
...Soviet cruise missiles represent a far-reaching threat to the U.S. Half the American population and industrial capacity sit within 150 miles of the ocean coasts, where cruise missiles launched from Soviet submarines could strike quickly and unexpectedly. The U.S. has virtually no defense against such missiles, particularly when the Soviets also employ stealth technology. The threat is compounded by the difficulty in negotiating a cutback in cruises: they are so small and portable that their numbers would be almost impossible for either side to verify, and conventionally armed missiles cannot be distinguished from nuclear weapons...