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Lenin was no more prescient. In 1916 he declared one of the goals of the Bolsheviks to be "the elimination of the fragmentation of humanity in petty states and the individualism of nations." He thought the workers of Germany would side with Russia after the Revolution of 1917, even though the two countries were still at war. The successors of Lenin and then Stalin seemed surprised when frustration with the Communist system merged with anti-Russian sentiment to help trigger such traumatic events as the Hungarian uprising of 1956, the Prague Spring of 1968 and the Polish Solidarity movement...
...directly across the border from Ciudad Juarez (the two cities' combined population exceeds 1.5 million). But for the narrow concrete channel that guides the Rio Grande through the urban sprawl, it would be difficult to pick out the boundary. There is synergy everywhere, from the maquiladoras on the Mexican side, where American manufacturers pay less than $1 an hour to a largely grateful work force, to the shops lining El Paso's Bridge Street, where Spanish is the vernacular...
...many differences abound, suggesting that even here the border is much more than just cartographical whimsy. Two American youths from El Paso were arrested and accused of killing a Mexican policeman and wounding another during a night out in Ciudad Juarez. On the U.S. side, outrage erupted over perceived weaknesses in the Mexican judicial system, with newspapers carrying stories of Mexican police corruption and the shakedowns that supposedly occur so frequently south of the border. But Mexican newspapers highlighted the fact that the slain policeman was the father of three and accused youthful American visitors of an arrogant belief that...
More than 2,000 miles from the mouth of the Rio Grande, a marble obelisk with the number 258 marks the Pacific boundary of the frontier. On the U.S. side of the wire-mesh fence, this one corroded by the sea air, sanitation workers are emptying trash cans set about the neatly cut lawns of a small park. On the Mexican side of the fence an eroded gully is filled with garbage. What was once the Playa Azul restaurant is drunkenly toppling sideways, its concrete supports undermined...
...walks toward a monster mound of corn and, as photographers record the event, he acts like a man waiting for a train on a platform. Loretta Lynn and Crystal Gayle and Peggy Sue appear, dressed in tall spike heels, skintight pedal pushers and Bush T shirts. On the other side of the factory, for the thousandth time that day, the sisters introduce Bush by singing Coal Miner's Daughter, Amazing Grace, The Man from Galilee, and I Saw the Light. The crowds all day, surprised to find someone really famous among them, give the singers squeals of delight and that...