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...young London architect who gets his big break, a commission to design public housing. Mindful that semidetached cottages are what blue-collar Britons prefer, he nonetheless opts for massive towers as the only practicable response to the vagaries of the redevelopment site. Glenn Close plays his wife, gradually torn between loyalty to him and belief that the community should decide its own fate. Mary Beth Hurt and Simon Jones are their intrusive, dependent neighbors: a humbly born and mousy former nurse and her snide, sadistic husband, a failed member of the gentry who was a university pal of the architect...
...virtues of this singular insulation are acknowledged by even the government's critics: while superpower tensions have torn Indochina asunder, civil and incivil wars have haunted even such tiny neighbors as Sri Lanka, and booming Asian powers like Singapore and Japan have had to bear the costs of sudden prosperity, Burma has remained serenely on the geopolitical sidelines, at peace. Only once in recent years has it hit the head-lines: in October 1983, when North Korean terrorists planted a bomb in Rangoon that left four members of the visiting South Korean Cabinet dead. Of late, Burma has stepped...
...neither at the bargaining table nor on the battlefield? Might the U.S. face an unhappy choice: accepting defeat and humiliation by proxy, or having to come to the rescue of its proxies with its own troops? Then the U.S. could find itself bogged down in a messy war and torn apart in an even messier domestic debate...
...however, the sandhills seem to inhabit a charmed world. Their persistent presence in that world stirs hidden human watchers. Midwestern Environmentalist Ross Sublett, an official with the Nature Conservancy, has seen the cranes many times, but at day's end, peering through the torn burlap curtain of a small wooden blind, he marvels anew at the squadrons of cranes landing in the Platte like parachutists dropping from the sky. Dark descends, and a full moon magically rises, throwing a broad moon-beam across both river and cranes. "What's the fascination?" Sublett murmurs. With the cries of the cranes filling...
...José Napoleón Duarte declared a state of emergency and issued an appeal for unity. "We'll come out of this, with the efforts and courage of all Salvadorans," Duarte said in a radio address. The magnitude of the disaster produced a rare show of solidarity in a nation torn by a seven-year civil war. In an extraordinary communiqué, the rebel guerrilla force, the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, declared a temporary cease-fire...