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...necessary to join the Indiana Guard at that time, but it's clear Quayle and his family didn't leave things to chance. A valid issue on its own, this also compounds the G.O.P. ticket's "silver spoon" problem. Second, it's hard for a politician to strike a martial pose and accuse his opponents of insufficient devotion to American military strength when he passed up his one chance to make a personal contribution to that strength...
...what about those poor bald souls for whom Rogaine is not recommended? Ovid's fellow Roman, the epigrammatist Martial, may have had the best advice: "Be content to seem what you really are, and let the barber shave off the rest of your hair...
...first major quake struck early last week. In defiance of martial law, which Sein Lwin had decreed on Aug. 3, tens of thousands -- perhaps more than had gathered for any occasion since independence in 1948 -- flocked into the streets of the capital in response to a general strike called by students. Similar demonstrations occurred in at least 16 other cities. Soldiers from the army's 77th Brigade, which had been deployed in Rangoon several days earlier, stood quietly away from the marchers...
...which included 21 public appearances in three cities, was the riskier part of his visit. His trademark flesh-pressing tours were not a guaranteed box-office success in a country that harbors an enmity toward Moscow leaders dating far back in history -- an enmity deepened by the imposition of martial law in 1981 under threat of Soviet intervention. It hardly helped matters that Gorbachev's host was Party Boss Wojciech Jaruzelski, the army general who imposed and later rescinded the military rule and who remains widely disliked in Poland. The visit, moreover, came at a time of economic crisis, with...
...first native Taiwanese to head the Kuomintang, is expected to reduce government intervention in the economy and continue an expansion of civil liberties in the wake of last year's end to martial law. Taiwan relaxed a ban on travel to the mainland last year, but other major initiatives toward Beijing seem unlikely. Lee last week vowed to "make no compromise of any kind" with Beijing...