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...once hoped to make the Baltic states a showcase for perestroika. But he now faces a painful dilemma. If he allows the nationalist movements to run unchecked, he risks worsening ethnic tensions on top of all the Soviet Union's other problems. But if he cracks down, he will hearten the enemies, who are already making rich political capital out of the discrimination against Russians. The Soviet leader met with Baltic party and government officials last week to seek some compromise of their demands. This week's oft-postponed plenum may show if he has found a way to calm...
...full of fresh reports about the Chernobyl accident. A story in Pravda, the Communist Party daily, quoted the eyewitness account of a control-room worker who described hearing two loud explosions and then seeing a fireball rise above the reactor building. Many stories strained to find positive details to hearten readers. Pravda, for example, cited evidence that life continued in the wake of the accident: "The nightingale concert over Pripyat goes on both night and day." Yet, in a demonstration of disdain for Western-style rock, Soviet officials did not publicly announce last week's concert for the evacuated residents...
That maxim may hearten Ted Kennedy, 53, who is once again casting an eye at another seat with special meaning for the family: the one in the Oval Office. The uncle's ambition could affect the nephew. If Edward Kennedy runs for President in 1988, he will vacate the Senate seat he has held for 23 years, possibly making room for another Bay State Kennedy. Voters in the politically savvy Eighth District, which includes Harvard University and M.I.T., may not want to elect a novice who might start campaigning for higher office within the year. They have grown accustomed...
Heavyweights must measure up to John L. Sullivan, and Biggs' flaws are that he has no charisma and cannot punch. But the state of the division must hearten him: it is the main reason boxing seems moribund again. When Dempsey went, he was taking boxing with him. Then Louis came along. Marciano. Ali. Sugar Ray Leonard made the welterweights the heavyweights, and this is slim Breland's slender hope too. The first opponent served up to him (from more than a half foot below) was better than the best Cuban he ever fought. "He looked at me like...
...people." Four years ago, Ansari came to Keego Harbor from Iran. The rollicking economy has made the U.S. more attractive than ever as a destination for immigrants: 2.5 million have come legally over the past five years, 20% more than arrived during the previous five years. It ought to hearten Americans that so many people around the world still hunger avidly to become Americans...