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...starkest separations plague the most intimate areas: home, church and recreation. Although more black families are moving into northwest Greensboro's nicer houses, the area remains overwhelmingly white. Beyond the downtown underpass, which traditionally marked the other side of the tracks, southeast Greensboro remains almost all black. Several years ago, Ron and Betty Crutcher, who are black and lived in a mostly white neighborhood, put their split-level house on the market to seek a less traffic-filled neighborhood for their young daughter. The real-estate agent suggested the Crutchers hide their family pictures, implying that white buyers would...
...starkest contrast is the hurriedly published autobiography of Boris Yeltsin, the charismatic populist who seems more of a cross between Mick Jagger and Huey Long than a veteran apparatchik. His book, as predictably frank as Gromyko's is dour, bounces from biographical anecdotes to a diary of % his successful 1989 election campaign for the new Soviet legislature. The former volleyball star, who despite touches of buffoonery has become a cult hero among Soviet rebels with a cause, struts his arrogance from the schoolyard to Red Square...
Last week's agreement between the two countries to start immediate negotiations to replace the East German ostmark with the West German deutsche mark provided the starkest reminder yet of the downside of unification. The immediate aim of the monetary union is to stanch the East German stampede to the West, which continues at the rate of 2,000 a day. The theory is that if Easterners were more confident about their country's economic future, they would be less prone to flee. The first step in that process is to replace East Germany's funny money with West Germany...
...with the Marxist-Leninist Sandinistas when the only deal the U.S. wanted was their abdication. And besides, they couldn't be trusted to live up to any agreement. Eight years, $250 million and one contra % army later, the Sandinistas are still in power. It was one of Reagan's starkest foreign policy failures, producing neither a military victory nor a diplomatic breakthrough...
...Helsinki en route to pre-summit meetings in Moscow: "I don't think ((releasing the hijackers)) is a proper thing to do." But he declined to "second-guess" Algeria. As for the Algerians, Interior Minister Hadi al- Khaderi, who oversaw the negotiations, explained his government's decision in its starkest terms: "It was a question of saving human lives...