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In the long struggle against racial discrimination in America, progress has been vast, if uneven and too slow. Barriers against equal access to public accommodations have fallen, voting rights of all citizens have been guaranteed, and blacks have assumed impressive political power in cities and state legislatures. Job opportunities have...
Farmer Malard walked his acres last week and understood how others might not sense the stress. Behind him the low hills along the Missouri were beige, fringed with the green of buckbush and cottonwoods, durable species. "This time of year it should all be beautiful green," he said with a...
USUALLY a summit, like the one between President Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev last week, would seem momentous. Beyond the standard media hype accorded such events, this summit seemed to solidify the rapproachment between East and West. The two leaders signed the historic nuclear arms treaty negotiated at their last...
Though Ronald Reagan has long since muted his language about the "evil empire," the White House has never stopped sounding alarms about the Soviets' drive to buy -- or steal -- Western defense technology. Soviet espionage, U.S. officials warn, is eroding the West's lead in high-tech weapons and saving the...
< It was up to Christian Lacroix, currently carrying the torch as the mainstream's brightest hope, to kindle some heat. Lacroix, who turned couture upside down and shook out its hand-stitched pockets as no one else has since Saint Laurent, made his ready-to-wear debut, and expectations were...