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...been almost a given among experts for some time that part of the challenge to the U.S. and its allies is to bring global Communism in its decline to a soft landing rather than let it crash and burn. American politicians and statesmen have understood as much, at least in theory. Ronald Reagan spoke of Marxism as "inherently unstable" and doomed. But in the policies that went with this confident rhetoric, he, like his predecessors, concentrated on the task of matching Communism's strength and deterring its expansion, not on the more subtle and relevant dilemma of coping with...
What leads a writer to choose his specialty? For Andrew Tobias, it was his experience as a part-time entrepreneur at Harvard in the late 1960s. Joining in several college-run ventures, he rented refrigerators to dorm dwellers and helped write the popular Let's Go: The Student Guide to Europe. Says Tobias: "I learned a lot in a short time, but I decided that I have more fun writing about business than trying...
...Thursday-night news conference, Bush explained why. "The situation is still very, very murky," he stressed. Washington is simply unable to discover who is in and who is out among the Chinese leadership, let alone predict what actions they may take. The President disclosed that he personally attempted to telephone "a Chinese leader" (Deng Xiaoping, whom Bush got to know in his Beijing days), but "I couldn't get through...
Gorbachev acknowledged the violence in sessions of the Congress, the latest outbursts in a growing litany that many conservatives blame on his tolerant governing style. Said the Soviet leader: "Let us again issue an appeal to keep the peace. Please stop and let us trust the legal organs of the country to do everything to protect the lives of the people...
...right but a service akin to public transportation and that drivers should pay for the privilege. So the council will charge owners of private cars or motorcycles a $45 monthly fee for using their vehicles downtown on weekdays between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. The permit would also let holders ride the subway and buses...