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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Recently the Monitor has been trying to overcome its dowdy image by expanding into other media. The Monitor's four-year-old weekly radio program is now carried on more than 220 public radio stations. Its shortwave broadcasts, begun last year, will be heard in every part of the globe by early next year. A syndicated TV series (first monthly, later weekly) was introduced in 1985 and was seen on 103 stations before being supplanted this fall by the nightly newscast. This month also marks the debut of World Monitor, a slick monthly magazine on global affairs that...
...force tableaux with his effortless black magic. In one, Bev strides into surgery dressed in red, like a demon priest at a sacrificial rite. The victim is woman; her crime is woman's unique advantage over man, the power to produce perfect new bodies from the most vulnerable part of her own. Any mad scientist, any man, can try either to serve that power or to destroy it. And Bev must finally love the two things he kills: a woman's procreative strength, and his own better, brotherly half...
...Defense week" was part of a broader strategy to rescue the Democrat's floundering campaign. Since his rehabilitation on Labor Day weekend, John Sasso, Dukakis' closest adviser, has stolen a page from the Republicans' game plan. Campaign swings are now organized around a single coherent message and a compelling "visual" for the evening news...
...American military force against Communist aggression in the Middle East. After Fidel Castro's revolution in Cuba, U.S. policymakers dusted off the 136-year-old Monroe Doctrine, which warned European powers to stay out of the Western Hemisphere. (The original version, appropriately, had been occasioned in part by concern over czarist claims on territory along the Pacific coast...
However, in the broader context of what is happening elsewhere in the world as well as inside the U.S.S.R., the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan may turn out to be part of something much more welcome. It may mark the beginning of the end of Soviet imperialist outreach. And it may have come about not just because of American counterpressure but also because of ferment within the Soviet power structure itself. In short, Kennan's original prediction of the eventual "mellowing" of Soviet power may finally be coming true...