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...athletes in this charmed circle, it's a great life if you don't weaken. Dick Button marvels at the number of competitions (Skate America, Skate Canada, Piruetten), plus the tours that clog a skater's year. "The pressure is never off," he says, "especially in an Olympic year." Button is skeptical of the demands made by the three-month-long, 59-city Tom Collins tour (April 11 to July 12), but in fact this is the ambition of every first-class competitive skater. Collins, the impresario, picks mostly Olympic and national medalists, along with some other favorites...
Once a powerful force under Likud governments, the settlers have seen their leverage weaken since Labor's rise to power last year. Rabin made it clear that the settlers represented only 4% of the population, and he cared more about the other 96%. Although many Jews in the occupied territories are young married couples originally drawn by tax breaks and cheaper housing to the bedroom communities outside Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, a core of hard-liners are fired by a messianic fervor that charges them with settling the biblical lands where the Jews once lived...
Mandela and the ANC recognize their predicament and have repeatedly condemned the methods by which the government is manipulating the democratization process by fomenting violence in the Black townships. But these obstacles have not been able to weaken Mandela's optimism, an attitude that shines through in most of the speeches collected here. He pays tribute to the struggles of all the progressive forces in bringing about the current phase of negotiations, including the youth, students, women's groups, civic organizations, churches, and the trade unions. In a speech to the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), he remarked...
This issue of Time is devoted to American diversity, and thus by definition to the differences among Americans. Those differences gain their impact, however, from the bonds that unite them in one vast and variegated country. They are differences that should not divide or weaken America, but distinguish and strengthen it. They are the reason to keep the welcome mat, however worn and tattered at times, always ready at the door...
...people -- convicts and the mentally ill, for example. For the first time there were real limits on European immigration. Twelve years later, a group calling itself the Immigration Restriction League adopted the pseudo science of eugenics as the basis for its contention that breeding from "inferior stock" would fatally weaken America...