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...overflowing with commuters on their way to work, were nowhere to be seen. In smaller cities and towns the story was the same: a 24-hour work stoppage called by the Peronist-dominated General Confederation of Labor (C.G.T.) had temporarily paralyzed the country. One militant leader of the 3 million-strong union bluntly called the collective action nothing less than "the rejection of a finished regime...
...latest streak of violence is a disquieting sign that the fragile tribal coalition that turned white-ruled Rhodesia into black-governed Zimbabwe in 1980 is crumbling. On one side are Prime Minister Robert Mugabe and nearly 6 million members of the Shona tribes; opposing them are Joshua Nkomo, the rival nationalist leader, and the 1.5 million-strong Ndebeles. Mugabe supporters blame the holiday terror on diehard members of Nkomo's ZIPRA guerrilla army, which was disbanded after the nation's seven-year civil war had ended. Nkomo stoutly denies any responsibility for the rebel actions, although he does...
...constitution reorganizes the government and highlights differences between party and state. It restores the post of state chairman, scrapped by Mao Tse-tung in 1968, and sets up a central military commission to take control of the roughly 4 million-strong People's Liberation Army from the party. The charter also marks the eclipse of the people's communes, one of Mao's proudest legacies, by taking away the political duties of its leaders...
Until the one million-strong peace march in Manhattan in early June, I was rather pessimistic about the possibilities of reversing the nuclear arms race in its headlong flight to doomsday for the Northern Hemisphere, if not the entire planet. Having "free-lanced" the march (I went as a loner and deliberately walked fast in order to take in the panorama of groups coming out for this "big event"). I came away with a much more optimistic feeling about our being able to stop what Helen Caldicott calls Nuclear Madness (the title of her recent book...
...many women pregnant? Is it some side effect of jogging? Microwave ovens? One of the answers is demography. The 37 million-strong cohort of baby boom women is now 25 to 35 years old. As a group, these women marry later than their mothers and delay having children until their education is completed and their careers are established. Many are giving birth to long-postponed babies...