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...calculated political message of an ambitious tyrant seeking to ensure his own coronation as master of the Arab universe? That is just what statesmen in the West and the Middle East are asking as Saddam accelerates his determined campaign for regional dominance. In recent months he has thrust himself into the world spotlight with a series of saber-rattling actions, statements and threats that have reinforced his reputation for ruthlessness and provoked disturbing questions about his ultimate designs. "He is playing on an old theme; call it constructive craziness," says Mark Heller of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies...
Gaviria, 43, owes his victory in part to his willingness to pick up the mantle of antidrug crusaders after his party's leading candidate, Luis Carlos Galan, was gunned down last August by drug-cartel assassins. Thrust unexpectedly into the limelight at the urging of Galan's family, Gaviria emerged as the most vocal of the candidates against the narcotraficantes. "I am a supporter of extradition," says Gaviria, but he wants to use it only as a "last resort...
...morning of Dec. 23 we stepped off the train at Moscow's Yaroslavl Station onto a platform teeming with reporters. It took me 40 minutes to make my way through the crowd. Hundreds of flashbulbs blinded me and microphones were continually thrust into my face as I tried to respond to the barrage of questions. The whole scene offered a preview of the hurly-burly life that now awaited...
...emotional armor for the 1980s, it is also her best instrument of subversion. While other women are busy pointing fingers at one another for their family and career choices, Ehrenreich makes her case for working mothers by debunking, with the endearing sting of a suburban survivor, the guilt trips thrust upon them. Don't worry about missing your kid's "stages," she says, because "no self-respecting six-year-old wants to be reminded that she was once a fat little fool in a high chair...
...thrust," Wilson says, "has become less ideological and more pragmatic, more scientific and less...