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...Bush and Dukakis camps readily agree that the decision of those Democrats who voted for Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984 will be crucial nationally. Texas has as many of these so-called Reagan Democrats as any other state, and like the electorate at large, they seem to be torn. For Tommy Rushing, pausing after changing a tire in his Lufkin garage, the economic issue is paramount. Says he: "I'm going to have to go with Dukakis. The Republicans don't have anything to show." About 150 miles to the west in the farm town of Hillsboro, Haberdasher James...
...will need every bit of its inherent toughness to cope with challenges of the next few months -- some of them familiar, but others new and unexpected. Homesickness, for example, has always played a part in the adjustment process, but for the growing number of freshmen whose families have been torn by separations or divorces, moving away may be particularly painful. Children in such families are often cast as comforters, confidants and caretakers of their parents as well as of their siblings. "Many of them feel really responsible for their parents," says Katz, "which makes the whole separation issue much harder...
President Bok, who is the dean of the Ivy League presidents, perhaps best exemplifies this crisis-manager ideal. With a background in labor law, and a cool and calm demeaner, Bok was called in to restore peace to a campus torn apart in the late 1960s...
Polish workers once again were at the forefront of the challenge to the authority of nervous regimes torn between the risks of change and the dangers of maintaining the status quo. A wave of strikes in Poland that closed down at least 22 enterprises employing more than 110,000 workers amounted to the most serious outbreak of unrest in Eastern Europe since the nationwide strikes eight years ago that gave rise to the now banned trade union Solidarity and ended with the imposition of martial...
...wave of resistance to military service has been rising among white youths since 1985, when the South African Defense Force, 106,000 strong, stepped up its intervention in the Angolan civil war and moved into riot-torn black townships at home. Only a handful of young men out of the annual draft of some 34,000 failed to report for the 1984 call-up, but the following year the number of evaders jumped to more than 1,500. Since then the Defense Ministry has refused to release the statistics...