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Beijing's kinder, gentler line appears to be directed as much toward its own increasingly alienated people as its foreign creditors. "If the ruling party cuts itself off from the masses," warned an extraordinarily candid commentary in the Communist theoretical magazine Qiushi (Seeking Truth) last month, "it will invite calamity or will even be forced to step down." In the absence of ambitious goals like the economic and political liberalization policies set by fallen party chief Zhao Ziyang, says a Western diplomat in Beijing, "politics becomes a question of how you achieve stability best." At the moment, two approaches...
Imposing this oppressive vision on American families--more than half of which include two careers--will only increase marital dissolution, gender inequality and unhappiness among children. The United State is the only industrialized nation besides South Africa that doesn't guarantee family leave. President Bush's "kinder and gentler," "pro-family" agenda seems to consist of keeping America in that shameful company...
Perhaps what surprises most about Mongolia's quiet revolution is how peacefully it is unfolding. Mongolia, after all, is the homeland of Genghis Khan, who seven centuries ago led one of history's most notorious tribes of warriors. Twentieth century Mongolian history has not been much kinder. Economic stagnation, diplomatic isolation and political repression have withered the nation of 2 million since it fell into Moscow's orbit in 1921. The most basic commodities are in scarce supply -- even meat, despite the fact that Mongolia has more than six times as many sheep as people. Half the meat production...
Ultimately, the problem with any would-be intimate White House portrait isn't the presence of cameras. It's the forbidding landscape itself. This has been noted by Peggy Noonan, the Reagan speechwriter who also gave Bush many of his best lines (notably "a kinder, gentler nation"). In her recently published memoir What I Saw at the Revolution, Noonan says the White House often seems, even to insiders, to be bright and grand, all majestic spit and polish. But behind the scenes, it is "intrigue and betrayal" and hardball politics...
Viet Nam. Nowhere, perhaps, has the Soviet Union more emphatically demonstrated a determination to put a kinder, gentler face on its foreign policy than in Viet Nam. Last September, under pressure from Moscow, Viet Nam withdrew most of its remaining 26,000 troops from Cambodia (though last week there were reports that several thousand Vietnamese troops and military advisers have since returned). The Soviet Union has also begun reducing its muscle at the former U.S. military and supply base at Cam Ranh Bay. Two weeks ago, the Soviet Foreign Ministry announced that Moscow was removing...