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...exactly? Baker's friends have considered probably every route. Most dismiss a return to Texas and another run for elective office. (Baker lost a 1978 race for Texas attorney general.) "That might get him the political base he needs," says Baker's son Jamie. "But it's risky. There's no reason he couldn't leave State near the end of Bush's tenure and work it from the outside...
...LILAC TIME: THE LILAC TIME (Mercury). Bouncy, folk-tinged Brit pop, with jagged political subtext. Return to Yesterday has the jubilant rhythm and incidental melancholy of prime Simon and Garfunkel...
...Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping said he would meet with Gorbachev, provided that the Kremlin resolve three specific issues: border tensions, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the Vietnamese occupation of Kampuchea. Moscow began moving on all three, and last December Qian showed up in the Soviet capital. Shevardnadze's return visit made him the first Kremlin foreign policy chief to set foot on Chinese soil since the last, disastrous Sino-Soviet summit...
...reconciliation poses the threat of diluting the special relationship between Beijing and Washington dating from 1971. Yet almost no observers fear a return of the Sino-Soviet axis that provoked near paranoia in the 1950s. The Bush Administration "is relaxed" about a rapprochement between the Communist giants, said a U.S. diplomat. Most experts feel the advantages could outweigh the dangers (see following story...
...said there would have to be created a new set of values to replace the values of Christianity. God was dead, but guilt was not, and there was no way to absolve it. That, perhaps, is exactly the period we are in. No use saying we are going to return to the dissenting Protestant view of sexual morality at the turn of the century...