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...Bush finally pushed one over the bleachers last week. After 10 months of maneuvering to little effect on the recession, the Los Angeles riots and the Rio Earth Summit, Bush won from Boris Yeltsin a breakthrough arms-control deal and engineered the horseshoe-throwing, arm-around-Barbara scenes that remind people of his other up-close-and-personal diplomatic triumphs...
PERHAPS GEORGE BUSH SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETter than to think a brief stop in Panama on his way to an uncomfortable appearance at the U.N. Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro would remind Americans of the foreign policy successes that have otherwise marked his Administration. Panama City is notoriously prone to ugly street demonstrations, and on the eve of Bush's hastily arranged visit, an American G.I. was killed and another wounded in a drive-by shooting...
...Year for 1988. Says senior editor Charles Alexander, who edited the stories: "The summit itself can't save the earth, but it can put the nations of the world on the right path." Mittarakis shares that optimism and hopes that "by portraying the beauties of nature, we can remind the world about what is at stake." That is exactly our intent...
...base thirst for revenge. But in its most sophisticated form, the argument is far weightier and more interesting than that. Society, writes Walter Berns, an eloquent defender of capital punishment, must manifest a terrible anger in the face of a terrible crime, for nothing less will suffice to "remind us of the moral order by which alone we can live as human beings...
...This is high not high drama. This is high tedium, even for the consumers. In the benches in the rear, a few manage to read a newspaper, but no one can concentrate enough to read a book. There is, of course, no talking, as the bailiff is quick to remind anyone who happens to forget. One ends up simply watching, and waiting...