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...Everybody in my family is working now, and so is everybody I know who wants to work. That's a big change from a few years ago." In Illinois, the warring Democratic factions of Chicago Mayor Harold Washington and Cook County Party Boss Edward Vrdolyak reached a fragile truce but were still unable to deliver the way the late Mayor Richard Daley once...
Still, Rajiv's most immediate priority is to negotiate some sort of truce with the Sikh community and to end the bloodshed that is ravaging the country. Mrs. Gandhi contributed to the rise of Sikh extremism by refusing to compromise with the moderate faction of the Akali Dal, the Sikh political party, thereby enabling the fanatical Sant Bhindranwale to rise in the esteem of Sikh militants. Rajiv will have to find a way to seek a reconciliation at a time when emotions are inflamed on every side. One step toward solving this and other conflicts would be to permit...
...continued resistance by Afghan freedom fighters can only lead to genocide. The U.S.S.R. will not back off until Afghanistan is subdued. Meanwhile, the U.S. goads the Afghans to resist, resulting in the destruction of the land and its people. The way out of this situation is to negotiate a truce. It is sad but true that "it is better to be Red than dead...
...national interest, therefore, why not radical reform? A truce. Sweep the disclosure forms into the White House shredder. Declare, à la Senator George Aiken, the Battle of Watergate won, withdraw the troops and proclaim a general amnesty. After all, we do it for draft dodgers and deserters after a war. We could even do it the way it is done in banana republics: on the President's birthday...
...northern seaport of Tripoli, a smoldering feud between a fundamentalist Sunni Muslim group known as Tawheed and the pro-Syrian Arab Democratic Party, whose militiamen are sometimes called the Pink Panthers because of their raspberry-colored fatigues, erupted in the worst violence so far this year. Before a truce was called at week's end, at least 100 people had been killed and more than 200 wounded, most of them civilians. That brought the total number of deaths in the Tripoli fighting since January to 400. The Lebanese government of Prime Minister Rashid Karami, which has been unable...