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...must face the harsh reality that if the region's current economic conditions prevail, the outlook ahead is for more poverty, more instability, more violence. The U.S. might spearhead an international consortium of aid that would be applied to social reform and economic growth. The key here is to address the debilitating poverty that is endemic to the region. Only then is there hope of starving popular support for Central America's Communist insurgencies...
...Robertson proved there was an unassuaged moral yearning that Reagan had stimulated without quite satisfying. Robertson's agenda of prayer in school, harsh penalties for drug dealers, a return to patriotism, opposition to abortion and a full frontal attack on liberalism set the model for Bush's campaign in the fall. Robertson issued the marching orders in his speech at the New Orleans convention: "Criminals are turned loose and the innocent are made victims . . . I submit to you tonight that Michael Dukakis is the most liberal candidate ever put forward for the presidency by any major party in American history...
...madness -- sold-out arena concerts, two No. 1 singles, a No. 1 album, a deluge of magazine covers -- U2 knew they were adrift. It wasn't simply that the velocity of their incredible success had cut them loose from their moorings. Superstardom beamed a sudden, harsh light: the Irish band had no strong musical foundation at all. There was a sudden shared awareness among them that their center could not hold because it had never been firmly fixed...
...director says he thinks he has interpreted the show very differently from other productions of "Evita." "I see it as a colder production than ones that are usually done. `Evita' is a cynical, harsh portrayal of a totalitarian regime," Fratto says. "To accent this perception, I stripped down the music to a hard-edge,rock score," he says...
Fallon said that he did not expect Powell to ask particularly harsh questions. "I'm not sure how aggressive a questioner he will be, although that would not reflect a lack of interest or preparedness. It's just not in the character of the man [to ask aggressive questions]," he said...