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...power struggle in russia pitting President Boris Yeltsin against conservatives should not be regarded as a battle of democracy vs. communism ((RUSSIA, Oct. 4)). Though slightly more liberal in their leanings, Yeltsin and his regime are nowhere near the democracy we in America would like to think. Yeltsin's dissolution of parliament and subsequent use of force to quell protests exemplify his disdain for the democratic political process. Yeltsin is a shrewd politician and a master at manipulating the West into believing he represents Russia's only realistic possibility for change and economic transformation. Neil K. Malik Attleboro, Massachusetts
...challenge of Paris and the stimulus of Surrealism. But it was also part of a specifically Catalan cultural renaissance that had been gathering speed since the 1870s, and was only driven underground by Franco. Miro was born and raised in Barcelona. But his parents had a farm near Tarragona, at Montroig, and although he wasn't by any definition a country boy, he did spend a good part of his youth there from 1911 on, starting with recovery from an attack of typhoid fever coupled with a mild nervous breakdown. It is tempting to relate the extraordinary sharpness of focus...
...Mexicans are taking jobs that no one here is taking,'' says Henry King, a business researcher at the University of Texas at El Paso. He estimates that the shadow work force now shut out accounts for 30% of all sales in El Paso. Merchants on once thriving streets near the three international bridges complain that business has plummeted as much as 80%. ''Do you see any customers?'' asks retailer Adrian Tavera, standing amid towering piles of T shirts and slacks. ''I'll be gone by Christmas if this keeps up.'' Says currency-exchange clerk Margie Barrientos: ''The stealing is gone...
...determine whether the wounded were alive, and by then it was too late to help. Like the war, Knox's account ends diffidently. Its last entry is a New Year's Eve letter from an Army captain to his mother, composed as he awaited another Chinese midnight attack near Seoul. ''We're kind of stuck out on a limb here,'' he writes. But without too much overt psychic dislocation, most of the men managed to climb down and take their place in society. In a war with no winners, that was the real triumph...
...beyond for three nights last week, late-night travelers near Atlanta came upon an astonishing new rock group in the lounge at the Ramada Renaissance. There, goofing and jamming together, were U2's lead singer Bono Vox and guitarist the Edge as well as Lou Reed, the grandfather of punk, Genesis Founder Peter Gabriel and New Orleans' own rock-'n'-soul kings, the Neville Brothers. Gyrating happily on the dance floor to the improvised mix of music was Joan Baez. This nightly ritual was the after-hours afterglow of the first-ever rock- 'n'-roll caravan for human rights...