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Even without a head-to-head challenger, continued upheavals in the non- Russian republics and perestroika's failure to fill empty stores with food and clothing are sending Gorbachev's popularity plummeting among ordinary citizens. How Mikhail Gorbachev handles the occupation of Azerbaijan -- and how the Azerbaijanis react -- will affect not only the future of his policies but the fate of the policymaker himself...
...some professors say they use their own books because they like to see first-hand the way students react to them...
...whom he incessantly writes and telephones. (Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle were busy until 3 o'clock the night of the Panama invasion, calling foreign leaders to inform them of the President's decision.) These contacts, aides say, have given Bush a feel for how the world will react to any particular U.S. move -- or, in other words, for what he can and cannot get away with...
Such precedents are not encouraging if the U.S. is to grapple with global warming, the climate change that might follow from overloading the atmosphere with gases like carbon dioxide. To date the Administration has been slow to react to the greenhouse threat because scientists are still debating how serious the problem is and because taking strong steps against it could cause severe economic dislocations. The U.N. is sponsoring a major study that could provide the basis for a coordinated international approach to global warming. American leadership is critical to this effort, just as it was to the Montreal Protocol...
...easy to do the right things when you're winning, but it's really hard to do when you're down," Roby continued. "That's the stress test and we're still looking to make sure that we're going to react the proper...