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Dreaming: Shirley Strum says that there came a time when the baboons spoke to her in English. They came to her in her dreams and asked for her help. For twelve years Strum, an anthropologist from California, had been studying a baboon troop at a ranch called Kekopey, near Gilgil. Then the ranch was turned into an agricultural collective, and the new farmers menaced the baboons and tried to kill them...
...personal lives of Milford, Nebraska's hard-driven, over-sexed residents. In one of its most subtle political commentaries so far, the show depicts--from a variety of salacious angles--the hips of Robert "Spenser: for Hire" Urich's daughter, as she tries out for a Soviet ballet troop and earns an admonition from a stern Russian: the time has passed when "undisciplined gyrations were considered self-expression...
Last week's visit made it clear that Najibullah's proposed six-month cease- fire was more than propaganda. In remarks to Afghan journalists before he left the capital, Shevardnadze praised the cease-fire offer and hinted that a Soviet troop withdrawal was "not far off" so long as "freedom-loving cowboys," apparently meaning the U.S., stop aiding the rebels...
...hijacking came only hours after a burst of renewed fighting in the gulf war. Early last week the Iraqis staged heavy air raids on Iranian industrial centers and troop concentrations in the hope of heading off Tehran's long- awaited "final offensive," for which the Iranians have amassed an estimated 650,000 troops along the 730-mile front. According to Iraq, Iranian forces launched a Christmas Eve assault aimed at capturing the southern Iraqi city of Basra but were repulsed by Iraqi troops after suffering huge losses. The Iranians, on the other hand, claimed they had merely been trying...
...absence of the nuclear deterrent, the Eurasian continent would be dominated by the nation with the most powerful conventional forces. (In addition to far higher troop levels, the Soviet bloc now has a 5-to-2 advantage in tanks and a 3-to-1 advantage in artillery.) Is the existing structure of Western security to be cast aside before we are assured that an alternative truly exists? The President may win plaudits from some when he holds out his vision of a "world without nuclear weapons," but has he seriously examined the consequences? What do the Joint Chiefs have...