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...Hirohito's face; the very mention of his name was taboo. Yet Hirohito was well aware that he was to be as much pawn as ruler. Even as his advisers refrained from looking at him, they also refused to listen to him. His divine authority was not enough to suppress the military officers who began taking control of the country in the 1930s...
Bush could also lay out a vision of Western goals that transcend the cold war struggle. The necessity to contain Soviet influence often led U.S. policymakers to suppress America's natural idealism and support regimes whose only redeeming grace was their anti-Communism. To the extent that Gorbachev's new thinking makes that less necessary, it frees the U.S. and the West to pursue more positive goals. Among them: attacking environmental problems that cannot be solved on a national basis; shaping aggressive new methods for containing the spread of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons; reducing world famine and poverty; resolving...
...billion in reparations, 25% of which would cover what they call "moral damages." But who is going to assess damages against the Sandinistas for their own incompetence and chronic mismanagement? Since 1979 the Sandinistas' most salient achievements have been to consolidate their power, build a formidable military machine and suppress dissent. While the Sandinistas claim they could triumph in any election, Nicaraguans are voting otherwise with their feet. More than 500,000 have fled to the U.S. and Honduras, and half again as many are expected to flee during the next year...
Despite Vice President George Bush's denials, his operatives have brazenly exploited racial prejudice to aid his presidential bid. There was never any question that the Bush campaign benefits from racial animus, and Bush has never attempted to suppress it. But now they have taken to actively encouraging...
...play focuses on Max (Paul D'Alessandris), who lives with Rudy (David Gammons) in 1930s Berlin. Once openly gay, Max and Rudy are forced by the newly homophobic climate to suppress their sexual selves, lest they be arrested for such a crime as holding hands in public. Eventually they are caught and sent to a concentration camp, where Max discovers it is even more dangerous to be branded with the pink triangle that signifies homosexuality than to wear the yellow star of the Jew. In order to adapt and survive, Max must betray Rudy and sacrifice his humanity, though...