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...Erase the race that claim the place and say we dig for ore." She makes no overt 'statement,' but the primitive-sounding instruments and background follow a sparse, dirge-like rhythm, mourning the destruction of a people. At the same time, the dirge represents the grinding advance of heavy machinery. The background sounds of animals and chanting crowds of people give way to the mechanical advance, leaving only a lone, hopeless voice to utter a regret in an ancient tongue...
While Cabinet secretaries and Senators sometimes cross swords, Elizabeth Dole's elevation should ease the occasional awkwardness that resulted when she was defending White House positions and her husband was publicly opposing them. It should also reduce slightly any embarrassment caused by the Senator's overt presidential ambitions. By shifting to Transportation, she will be a few steps removed from the more delicate congressional and political operations at the White House...
...uncensored mail. More than 5,000 people were interned, the independent Solidarity union was suspended and its leader, Lech Walesa, was being held at a government complex outside Warsaw. During twelve months of martial law, General Wojciech Jaruzelski has succeeded beyond most people's expectations in crushing the overt opposition to Communist rule in Poland. As a sign of its self-confidence, the government last week announced that it was releasing all but seven of the estimated 200 people who were still being held under martial law. But Jaruzelski had also hoped to persuade a majority of Poles that...
...crises, Washington has wisely chosen to do the same. The turbulent history of U.S. involvement with Mexico, which has included three invasions and the seizure or forcible purchase of fully half of Mexico's territory (now parts of Texas, California and five other states), means that overt American intervention in its neighbor's affairs, even of the most helpful kind, is anathema to Mexican leaders. The U.S. infusion of cash that averted Mexican bankruptcy last summer, for example, was arranged with a minimum of fanfare and rhetoric. Says a Washington-based expert on Mexico: "The most important thing...
...coauthors, George Davis, a novelist, and Glegg Watson, who helps direct educational grants at Xerox Corp., explain that they might have paraphrased an old Jamaican-sect expression as a theme: "How can African man live at IBM without losing himself?" The answer: he cannot. They conclude that even where overt discrimination does not exist, black managers feel they must not only outperform their white competitors to get ahead, but also hide their racial identity behind the mask of the organization man. As a result, less accommodating or more outspoken blacks do not get promoted, and companies are deprived of their...