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...intellectual depth or originality to the important social policy debates, they have managed to market themselves as architects of a new policy consensus. Consequently, these courageous young servants of the people are rented, and then imported to the White House for photographic sessions with the Gipper. It is im- portant to note that this constructive engagement was undertaken at the very moment Reagan was escalating his domestic policy war against the poor...
...conduct in young people, James raises a serious question that he tried repeatedly to re- solve. He argued constantly that the artistic spirit should be free to roam where it chooses, regardless of the taboos and strictures urged by conventional morality. He also believed that literature is im- portant and - powerful enough to change people for better and worse...
...South American trip was particularly im- portant for the king, who is firmly committed to hispanidad--the unity of all Spanish-speaking peoples. He was received as a here wherever he went. "He is the symbol of a new future, or the new possibility for Latin America," says Marichal. "In Montivideo, the entire city was out in the street shouting, 'Long Live the King,'" he adds. "What they were really shouting was, 'Long Live Democracy...
...live under military regimes of one form or another. That ratio was created by the imposition two weeks ago of overt military rule in Brazil, where half the continent's 180 million people live. Yet even before that event, armed forces were in command in four other im portant countries-Argentina, Peru, Bolivia and Paraguay-which stretch from the peaks of the Andes to the desolate plains of Tierra del Fuego...
Communism's first 50 years must be judged primarily by its effects on "the fatherland of socialism," by the way in which it has affected Russian life and Russia's attitudes toward the rest of the world. TIME here examines five im portant facets of that life: 1) whether the revolution has lived up to its own promise, 2) what effects Communism has had on the Russian character, 3) the quality of life in Russia today...