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...proclamation of the Beijing Communist Party propaganda department? Eerily, China's top leaders apparently believe that if they repeat the lie enough times, it will turn into truth. More chilling still, Chinese citizens outside the capital, with little access to independent information, seemed to accept the government's sanitized version of events. Perhaps they are relieved to be no longer teetering on the brink of civil war. Perhaps they find a military occupation, 1,000 arrests and a revision of history a small price to pay for restoration of order. Perhaps, suggests a university professor in Shanghai, "the truth...
CYMBELINE. A mildly punkish off-Broadway version of Shakespeare's odd tragedy stars Oscar nominee Joan Cusack (Working Girl) as a wife wrongly accused of infidelity...
Quayle in fact resembles the activist Mondale model of a Vice President far more than the invisible-man version perfected by Bush. The difference is the heart of Quayle's salvation strategy. He staggered through the election branded an overprivileged airhead. As candidates or incumbents, Vice Presidents often attract some derision. For the young golf addict, it was a nearly lethal dose. "I came to the office adding a bit of luster to that ridicule," he muses. Allies advised him to go underground, to avoid risks. But with escalating speculation that Bush would dump him in 1992, Quayle...
...stringent new regulations of the bill, the President warned, he would veto it. By week's end Bush prevailed when the House approved a strong bailout bill by a vote of 320 to 97. In all, 46 Republicans voted against the measure. Since the Senate passed a similar version in April, Bush's plan to rescue the thrift industry is likely to go into effect next month...
...outgoing SDI director, said he would be willing to scuttle some important elements of Phase I in favor of a new technology, "Brilliant Pebbles." Initially, SDI had called for hundreds of orbiting "garages," each carrying ten killer rockets that would crash into oncoming Soviet ICBMs. In the latest version, some 6,000 independent Pebbles, each 3 ft. long and weighing perhaps 100 lbs., would do the job. The new SDI director, Lieut. General George Monahan, has cautiously embraced the concept as "doable" but warns that it is still an experimental approach. SDI supporters have rallied behind Pebbles as a welcome...