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Made in Managua offers a simple, contemporary account of a single American's brief encounter with the tumult of Central American politics. Maushard effectively provides us with an unpolished, but rewarding portrait of Nicaragua. Although his brief account is not particularly insightful, it paints a memorable picture of something most Americans will never know...
...Christian Science is further beset -- by doctrinal tumult. Last month many members of the faith were shocked when sedate reading rooms around the world began displaying a book that had been deemed unsound by church officialdom more than four decades ago. The Destiny of the Mother Church, by Bliss Knapp, claims that the faith's 19th century originator, Mary Baker Eddy, was virtually a second Christ. This flies in the face of Eddy's own claims to be no more than the inspired founder and leader of the movement. Official publication of the volume has led to a rare outburst...
...tumult unfolds in the U.S.S.R., it is good to remember an earlier < upheaval of great moment. After years of oppression, thousands of angry and impatient Americans threw off the yoke of tyranny and declared themselves once and for all free -- to fornicate. Thus began the youth revolution of the '60s and '70s. The battle cry was "Gimme an S! . . . Gimme an E! . . . Gimme an X!," though frequently the word in question was spelled differently -- with four letters. So the rebels got plenty of sex, not to mention herpes...
...Communist Party in our country," said the 31-year-old mother of two, who worked in the economic department of the Pushkino party committee. "But now I don't know what will happen. Everything is changing too quickly." In towns like Pushkino (pop. 90,000), many Russians view the tumult sweeping Moscow with more anxiety and skepticism than do their big-city compatriots. While they welcomed the failure of the hard-line coup and admire Russian President Boris Yeltsin for his courage, they wonder if the destruction of Soviet communism will bring them anything more than uncertainty and hardship...
...fashionable these days to dismiss nuclear diplomacy as all but irrelevant, given the end of the cold war and the tumult in the U.S.S.R. But precisely because the future of that country is so uncertain, it's all the more important to make sure that one factor in the Soviet equation -- the size and composition of the Strategic Rocket Forces -- remains predictable...