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...foreign policy, the motto under Deng seems to be: try to get along with everyone so that the nation's energies can be concentrated on economic development. China has cautiously resumed trade and cultural exchanges with the Soviet Union. Peking has spared little effort in trying to convince the non-Communist nations of Asia that it intends to be a peaceful neighbor. It stopped aid to Communist rebels in Thailand in the late 1970s, and today disavows any idea of helping those in Malaysia, Indonesia or the Philippines. The only guerrillas China is aiding today are those battling the Soviet...
...motto of Wyoming is "Equal Rights," which suits Gretel Ehrlich just fine. The handsome, clear-eyed Californian went to the state in 1976 as a documentary filmmaker, and recalls that "I had the experience of waking up not knowing where I was, whether I was a man or a woman, or which toothbrush was mine." The 100-mile vistas and scouring winds leveled differences. In these sketches of Western life, she tells of burying herself in work: sheep-herding, cattle ranching and collecting sensations. Cowboys strike her as "androgynous at the core." It has something to do with a life...
...motto of the Special Forces is "Anything, anytime, anyplace, anyhow." Such an open-ended commitment to mayhem gives some people pause. Critics fear that if the Administration succeeds in building up the Special Forces, the President will be tempted to use them. Small wars, the critics point out, have a way of escalating into large ones. "The U.S. could find itself 'training' one day and fighting in a war the next," warns the Center for Defense Information, a dovish think tank that analyzes military strategy. "Nowhere is the danger of being dragged into a war more acute than in Central...
...Tokyo with the heads of six other leading industrial nations at the annual economic summit. Even France, which had previously opposed the inclusion of terrorism on the agenda for the economic meetings, has now agreed to discussions. Reagan's rallying cry will probably run along the lines of a motto that has recently become one of his favorites, a maxim coined by the 18th century British conservative Edmund Burke: "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall...
...affected by the shifts, with political power continuing to migrate from the Northeast and upper Midwest to California, Florida, Texas and other conservative Sunbelt states. The battle for statehouses and Governors' mansions will determine which party gets the advantage in redrawing congressional district lines in key states. The motto of the Democrats' political strategists has become, "Elections are the battles. Redistricting is the whole...