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...last May charged that China had "renewed its acts of war against Viet Nam," and blamed the Chinese for border infractions almost identical to those that China had complained about. Viet Nam's Communist Party Secretary General Le Duan said last month that the Chinese goal was "to weaken and eventually annex" Viet...
...Supreme Court often belittle lawyers' arguments and reverse the rulings of their predecessors. But rarely do they say they are sorry. Last week Justice William Rehnquist, writing for a majority of five, offered "apologies to all" for stirring a major legal debate on whether the court should weaken the exclusionary rule's ban on the use of illegally seized evidence in criminal trials. Having riled everyone about the issue, the court decided not to address the question after...
...American movement to weaken apartheid in South Africa by reducing U.S. involvement there is now at one of its strongest positions ever. For the first time, the traditionally divided group has found organizational unity and philosophical focus in a single goal forcing divestiture of all public and institutionally held funds from corporations that do business in South Africa...
...defects that mar Fool for Love -slapdash structuring, spongy logic -are not unique to Sam Shepard, now nearing 40, but weaken the works of oft-called "promising" U.S. playwrights in the same generation. To transform experience into consciousness is what differ entiates art from reportage. It is not enough to leave a theater knowing what we have seen. We ought to leave it knowing more than we knew. Shepard does not really provide that illumination, nor do Lanford Wilson, David Mamet, Albert Innaurato, David Rabe, Thomas Babe, Israel Horovitz, Terrence McNally and Christopher Durang...
...wages and benefits, compared with $12.60 an hour in Japan. Now that the recession is over, the talk in union halls is of catch-up instead of giveback. If executives and labor forget the harsh lessons administered by the recession and foreign competition, their companies will continue to weaken...