Word: washingtons
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...Soviet empire is disintegrating so quickly and in so many ways that * neither Moscow nor Washington has been able to adjust its policies fast enough to keep up with events. Last week, while the East German regime went into free fall, nationalists in the Estonian parliament prepared to consider a resolution that explicitly challenges the legitimacy of Soviet rule and implicitly raises the possibility of an eventual declaration of independence...
Centerpiece of the structure -- conceived by Maya Lin, who designed Washington's Viet Nam Veterans Memorial -- is a round tabletop, 11 1/2 ft. in diameter. On it, along with the 40 names, is carved a chronology of major civil rights events, and over this flows a thin sheen of water, a symbol of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "mighty stream" of righteousness. Said Karen Reeb, daughter of a white Unitarian minister who was beaten to death after he marched with King in Selma, Ala.: "It just eases the emptiness in my heart...
...Washington version of budget brinkmanship, the stakes range from the health of the world's largest economy and the strength of its armed forces to the fate of a college student's grant. All that and more were put at risk last week, when the capital's political gamblers -- the President and the Democratic leaders of Congress -- allowed the nation to bump up against the threat of bankruptcy...
...scientist V.O. Key's 1949 description of the state's old-family oligarchy as a "political museum piece." But, in truth, Virginia has changed almost beyond recognition in the past 20 years. A booming urban corridor, which includes two-thirds of the state's voters, curves south from the Washington suburbs of northern Virginia, crosses Richmond and heads east to the bustling Tidewater area around Norfolk. Although no Democratic presidential contender has carried Virginia since Lyndon Johnson in 1964, the party has controlled state government since the 1981 election of L.B.J.'s son- in-law, the popular Governor...
FRANCIS BACON, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington. Haunting emblems of the Age of Anxiety in the eminent British painter's distorted, isolated figures. Through...