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Just everything goes wrong for Farmer Tom Garvey (Mel Gibson) and his ever- sufferin' wife Mae (Sissy Spacek). The local river rises and floods their corn crop; an agricultural cartel tries to buy them out; the mean old banks threaten to foreclose on their land; and Mae gets her arm caught in a corn- picking machine. But Tom will not be swayed: "I ain't leavin'. 'Cept in a box." And so he joins the farm women of Places in the Heart and Country as Hollywood's nominee for the collective American hero...
...deterrence. At present, nuclear peace paradoxically depends on "mutually assured destruction" (MAD): an attack by one side guarantees a devastating counterattack. Star Wars, argues McFarlane, would obviate the need for this balance of terror. Says he: "You would move away from a strategy based on the ability to threaten with offensive power to greater reliance upon systems that don't threaten anybody." A switch from offensive to defensive deterrence would indeed be a radical change, but not necessarily for the better. Since it is hard to imagine a leakproof nuclear umbrella, each side would still be vulnerable to a first...
...chemical industry had a Three Mile Island of its own when a gas leak at a Union Carbide plant killed some 2,500 people in Bhopal, India. The company faces a flurry of lawsuits that threaten its financial future. In the wake of the disaster, chemical manufacturers will have to take a hard look at safety procedures. Moreover, companies in all kinds of industries will need to examine whether their ways of doing business in foreign countries measure up to their standards at home. Said a shaken Warren Anderson, chairman of Union Carbide: "I think Bhopal has changed the world...
Weinberger angrily denounced the Post story as "the height of journalistic irresponsibility." Publication of such stories, he fumed, "can only give aid and comfort to the enemy." Washington Post Managing Editor Leonard Downie replied that the revelations did not "remotely" threaten national security. "The very sparse information that we published this morning is well known throughout Washington and the world," he insisted. Both the Post and NBC maintained that they continued to withhold technical information about the shuttle mission that was not so widely known...
...united front remains elusive. The war itself has quieted down, with the insurgents avoiding battles with Nicaraguan troops in favor of ambushes and hit-and-run strikes. The overall reality, however, has not changed: the contras right now are too small in number and too ill equipped to threaten the Sandinistas seriously, but they are also too stubborn to give up. "The contras know they can't win, but they won't admit it," says a prominent Honduran businessman. "At first they thought they would sweep into Managua. Now they know they are in a quagmire...