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That de Klerk is attacking right-wing intolerance is heartening. But de Klerk, like Gorbachev in Europe, has also unleashed strong political forces that threaten to carry him away. Unlike the Soviet premier, however, de Klerk is offering only superficial changes, not legitimate reforms. Unless he is willing to offer Blacks an equal political role, he may discover that his policies of "balance" have expiration dates...
...RAINSTORM, HOWL LIKE THE WIND (Elektra/Asylum). Ronstadt takes lessons learned from her three successful albums of pop standards and puts them to work on the kind of material she did so well in the '70s: confessional ballads and songs of love gone amiss. The cathedral- filling orchestral arrangements threaten the fragile structure of some songs, but Ronstadt's singing (superbly accompanied on four tracks by New Orleans soulster Aaron Neville) keeps everything on course...
...attempts to disrupt social and political stability...can only seriously threaten the implementation of necessary change and bring the society into a crisis with unforeseeable consequences," the 67-year-old leader said on television...
...surrounded the Soviet Union; more than half a million American troops and aircraft are deployed there. The system was shaped at the end of the 1940s and 1950s and has its own history, but nowadays there are no grounds to have bases that threaten us. It is time that the U.S. think it over. In a number of countries, troops are deployed because of the results of World War II. We should agree to withdraw them. In Europe, that applies not only to the armed forces of the U.S. and the Soviet Union but to all states that have troops...
...Dennis Rodman, Mark Aguirre and Joe Dumars are the class of the league. Throw in free agent acquisitions David Greenwood and Scott Hastings for beef up front, and this team looks formidable. Only dominating centers such as Ewing, Houston's Akeem Olajuwon and San Antonio's David Robinson can threaten the Bad Boys...