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...world. We must, he implored Gorbachev, "find a better way." To the President, that meant reducing offensive weapons while seeking a transition to defensive weapons. He was quite conscious, he allowed, that Gorbachev sees a space defense system as simply a cover for achieving the capacity to wipe out the Soviets with a first strike. He wanted to assure Gorbachev that this was not, and would never...
...coming year. The harvest is better, but the number of people in need will remain high." Another problem is that little has been done to make African agriculture more resilient. Few of the drought-prone countries have grain reserves, and a lack of rain next year could easily wipe out this year's gains. "The emphasis is still on feeding the person, not helping him to produce," says Saouma...
Unlike so many fossils of the frontier, hundreds of one-room public schools such as these not only survive but, in some places around the nation, are making a modest comeback in the face of a long-running drive to wipe them out. Between 1960 and 1982, the number of public one roomers in the U.S. shriveled from 24,000 to 798. Reason: a push for consolidated districts in which pupils would be bused to big central schools with presumably better learning opportunities. Recently, however, parents and educators have been working to save the one-room public school. Montana...
...roundup brought to eleven the number of Miami cops arrested on drug-related charges in 1985. As investigations continued to uncover corrupt cops in the Miami area, Chief Dickson, 51, took a no-nonsense approach toward his embattled department. "We will wipe out corruption wherever it exists," said Dickson, who has been in his job for only a year. "We will always take the pro-active approach because we are Miami...
...long as you were alone. The government can still be brutal--particularly with anyone who tries to organize politically. Remember Falun Gong? After 10,000 practitioners of the meditation philosophy showed up outside Beijing's leadership compound in 1999 to protest discrimination, the government launched an effort to wipe out the religion, arresting and, according to believers, beating thousands of members. In China's Northwest, the government has jailed ethnic Uighurs who complained about Han Chinese repression of Islamic culture. The government also controls the media (a Chinese assistant in the New York Times's Beijing bureau was detained...