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...less political than Allende's last two novels, which decry the military dictatorship in the author's native land, Eva Luna protests abuses of power and corruption in a South American nation which one takes to be Venezuela. But her political commentary takes a different, more subtle tack here...
While this tack may consolidate Bush's conservative following, it should help bring the undecided and wavering moderates/independents--who may not be extremely liberal, but who do not identify with the Far Right either--into the Dukakis camp. This strategy, which failed Mondale in '84, is viable now due to the shift in popular opinion concerning the Far Right in light of the televangelist and Iran-Contragate scandals which have tarnished their image...
...After matching the 132-ft. New Zealand tack for tack in the opening minutes of the first race, Conner finished with a commanding 18-min. lead. In Friday's second meeting Conner again blazed ahead, winning by a comfortable 21 min. Back on land after the first contest, the Kiwis complained that Conner had not beaten them by a large enough margin. They argued that Conner slowed down to make Stars & Stripes seem more equal to their big boat, thereby defusing Fay's claim of a mismatch. Asked by a reporter if he were "dogging it," Conner snapped...
Even as Moscow pursued a conciliatory tack in foreign and military policy, NATO was facing new internal challenges to its cohesion. In Denmark last week, conservative Prime Minister Poul Schluter led his coalition government into what he called a "very decisive election" that focused on the country's future role within the 16-nation Western Alliance. He had called the vote after the opposition passed a motion strengthening a 31-year-old ban, never enforced, against nuclear-armed naval vessels' visiting Danish ports. Strict observation of that prohibition would severely hamper the operations of NATO warships in Denmark's waters...
...this a la carte approach to alliance membership confined to nuclear- deployment issues. France began the trend in 1966 when Charles de Gaulle closed down NATO bases and pulled his country out of the alliance's integrated command structure. Spain followed a similar tack in 1982: it joined NATO but kept its forces out of the chain of joint European command based outside Brussels. Last January, Madrid went a step further by ordering the U.S. to withdraw its 72 F-16 jet fighters from Torrejon air base. Greece has raised questions about U.S. bases on its soil. Such actions, says...