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...political and economic reform. But even though hardship and turmoil have plagued their first 12 months of freedom, the Baltic states sacrificed too much in the struggle for independence to forfeit their dreams of a better life. Few Balts, after all, would trade their nation's future -- however uncertain -- for its past...
Whether the film will have a similar impact on nonblacks is still uncertain (though crucial to the film's chances of returning a profit on its $34 million budget). Some whites have been turned off by the racist rhetoric with which Malcolm is often identified; others fear that violence might be provoked by scenes like the opening montage, in which an image of a burning American flag alternates with clips from the Rodney King videotape while a recording of one of Malcolm's most militant speeches plays in the background. "It's not going to be interpreted intellectually," frets Constance...
...contemplating a revival of Carter's plan to bring the boys home from South Korea. On Oct. 20, Seoul opposition leader Kim Dae Jung released a letter to him in which Clinton promised to preserve the level of U.S. troops in the $ country. Some Washington strategic-affairs experts remain uncertain, however. A sharp reduction of American forces in Korea would be sure to propel Asians, already jittery about possible transpacific trade reprisals, into desperate searches for new alliances and escalation of what is even now an intensifying regional arms race...
Riley said he expected the elevator to becompleted by mid-November and the rest of theinterior by the third week of December. But headded that the exact timing is uncertain...
...then a provincial referendum. Polls show only about a third of the Quebec vote to be hard-core separatist. Quebec's demands for a looser federation, Western insistence on greater clout, aboriginal longing for self-government -- all are likely to be fought out piecemeal in Ottawa, with uncertain results. The only point everybody can agree on is that the idea of trying to solve all these problems by writing a new constitution is dead for years to come...