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...figures from the 1990 Census -- the final tallies won't be available until after July 15 -- depict a nation that has been growing more rapidly and in more complex patterns than ever before. And with the large majority of congressional and legislative districts in the country scheduled to be redrawn over the next 18 months, it is proving one of the most controversial counts in history. Last week a Census Bureau survey indicated that the overall population figure of 248.7 million -- representing a jump of about 10% in a decade -- had missed some 4 million to 6 million U.S. residents...
...fact that capitalist foreigners were visiting at all suggests that the world's last great communist dinosaur is beginning to stir. As national alliances have been radically redrawn over the past year, the longest-running dictatorship in the world has found itself increasingly abandoned by the two patrons, Moscow and Beijing, that it has always managed to play off against each other. Pyongyang's sense of vulnerability was only sharpened when the Soviets, who account for 50% of North Korea's trade, established full diplomatic relations with South Korea in September. China, meanwhile, enjoys $3 billion a year of trade...
...geopolitical map was being redrawn. China, the Soviet Union and the U.S. found themselves voting together on the Middle East, a subject that has bitterly divided them in the past. Moscow held open the possibility of joining a U.N. force against its ally Iraq. That could mean joint military action with the U.S., an unthinkable idea for the past 45 years. At the same time, the wider role that many in Washington would like to see NATO adopt got an unrehearsed trial run, with the U.S. relying heavily on Turkey to complete the economic asphyxiation of Iraq, its southeastern neighbor...
This procedural change means more than a movement on the calendar. California is the most populous state in the nation, meaning it has the most electoral votes. After Congressional districts are redrawn to reflect the results of the 1990 census, California will likely see its representation increased even more...
...harbored continuing doubts that East Germany would really change: many who fled last week said they had no faith Krenz would fulfill his pledges. But change -- radical change, unimaginable change -- is coming to East Germany one way or another, and some think it will not stop until it has redrawn the boundaries of the country. The tide of events is washing away leaders and eroding the ideology of a rigidly orthodox state. Swept away too are many of the old certainties that have given shape and substance to the division of Europe settled at Yalta. Among them is the central...