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...feminist fascists, first of all, want gender purity. Women must shake off the ideologies and mores of masculine kultur. Secondly, they yearn for "A Place in the Sun," a separate but equal set of values for women. Women must be respected not just as equal persons, but simply and existentially for being women. Women must be represented and treated positively. Here, pornography is an obvious target. Ideally, men should look past a women's potential for a night of funzies, to the real qualities that make a woman a woman...
...implementation (of the contra effort) has been a disaster," says one Washington official. "This whole thing was never really thought through. We figured an armed group would be enough to shake things up. We underestimated (the Sandinistas') toughness and nationalism." Money can buy time and training, U.S. military and Administration analysts say, but a major tactical and structural overhaul is required to make the contras into anything resembling an effective threat...
When scandals over weapons procurement began to shake public support for the President's defense buildup, the White House created a commission last summer to recommend management reforms. But it soon became clear that the commission, chaired by David Packard, multimillionaire businessman (Hewlett- Packard) and former Deputy Secretary of Defense in the Nixon Administration, would affirm that billions of defense dollars had in fact been wasted...
...Avenues, co-written with Jorge Calderon and driven home hard by Jim Keltner's full-torque drumming, is the album's centerpiece, a contemporary street epic set in a Southern California barrio, where none of the characters get a chance to dream or a clear shot at a fair shake. It is a truly spectacular song, fired by a heart that is still romantic and forged by a political spirit that will accept no alibis...
...well accustomed to turbulence, but last week they fastened their seat belts and reached for the air-sickness pills. In the wake of the proposed Texas Air-Eastern and TWA-Ozark mergers, everyone from chief executives to flight attendants was wondering nervously just how much those megadeals would shake up the industry. The already fierce competition in the skies is sure to become even more cutthroat. Many airlines may find it increasingly hard to turn a profit, and union members will face new threats to their high salaries. But air travelers, faced with the prospect of more and bigger fare...