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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tiny progressive remnant, Bush got a platform very much in his own image. Thus armed, he plans to continue to use the stealth gambit against Dukakis. But in politics, as in war, every strategy evokes a response. In being so specific, the G.O.P. has promised potentially expensive goodies to various groups, such as tax breaks for certain oil producers and families that send their children to private school. Any moment now, the Democrats will tag the Republicans as the party of special interests...
...what books had shaped his life, he answered Hynes' Flights of Passage -- a rather late entry. Asked for earlier influences, he said, "Well, we had a lot of obligatory reading when I was young -- Moby Dick, Catcher in the Rye, Gentleman's Agreement. They shaped my ((life)), in various ways. How? I had to go back and give a book review on each of those when I was 17." Actually, two of those three books were written after he was 17, but the reviews he remembers were written for Hart Leavitt, who taught English composition. The grade Bush earned...
...York from the battlefront with fresh evidence that Iraq is using chemical weapons. According to the experts, Iraqi forces fired poison-gas shells at Iranian troops before retaking the Majnoun Islands in June. The first symptoms in those affected were described as "burning in the eyes and various parts of the body." Last week Iranian officials claimed that Iraqi planes dropped mustard-gas bombs on towns and villages in northwestern Iran, injuring some 1,700 people. Iraq denied the allegations...
...Adam is disturbed by the situation, he doesn't react. Nor does he question or even talk to Huck about the various homosexual men with whom he spends the night in their apartment. These are the 1980s, the book seems to say, the era of acceptance...
...eyes of youngsters. Her idea was to find a few fairly typical children and live with them 24 hours a day -- go to school with them, watch television with them, eat and sleep in their homes. The first challenge was to find a selection of interesting children from various income, ethnic and geographical groups. Initial guidance in that quest came from Dr. Robert Coles, winner of a Pulitzer Prize for his study Children of Crisis, and from Marian Wright Edelman, who heads the Washington-based Children's Defense Fund...