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...problem. For example, the U.S. currently backs an Anglo-American plan pieced together by U.N. ambassador Andrew Young and British Foreign Secretary David Owen. The plan marks an attempt by the British to atone for their weak-willed opposition to Smith's "colonial rebellion," and by the U.S. to undo the effects of the Nixon administration's "tilt" toward the apartheid states in the early '70s. Unfortunately, it calls for the participation of Nkomo and Mugabe in negotiations for a political settlement, a proposition which could precipitate bloody civil war between the Front and domestic black groups after the fall...
...middle of the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar, the island of Mauritius took several million years to develop animal forms that exist nowhere else in the world. But what nature can accomplish in eons, humanity can undo in millenniums, and that is exactly what the species Homo sapiens has done on Mauritius. By his own actions-and those of the animals he has introduced-man has already done away away the flightless black parrot, the giant Mauritian tortoise and the dodo, the huge bird whose very name has become synonymous with extinction. Now civilization threatens the rest of this island...
...President then launched a remarkable campaign to undo his own deed. Griffin was invited to the White House, where officials praised his talents as an administrator. Most important, Vice President Walter Mondale was assigned the task of finding him another job. At midweek, the White House announced that Griffin had accepted a newly created $50,000-a-year appointment as a "senior assistant" to Robert Strauss, the President's Special Trade Representative and Counselor on inflation...
...some residents joke that the city's best chance of getting new money out of the casinos and on to the streets rests with a movement organized by a women's rights activist and a former Atlantic City madam. They have formed a group called HUSH (Help Undo Sexual Hypocrisy) that is trying to legalize prostitution...
...escaped from a disaster movie, it was a sellout. Italy's Giorgio Armani is generally acknowledged to be the greatest evangelist of male unkempt. A disarming, blue-eyed Milanese, Armani, 43, is a canny tailor who knows precisely what each fabric can do and undo. Though Italians call his style Il Look Inglese-to which stiff upper-collared Englishmen might well object-Armani has managed to steer the national aspiration to la bella figura toward an image of bohemian nonchalance. His bellows-pocketed, unlined suits are sellouts in the U.S. at prices ranging from...