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- <title>
- Mar. 13, 1989: Grapevine
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Mar. 13, 1989 Between Two Worlds:Middle-Class Blacks
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- WORLD, Page 38
- Grapevine
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- <p> Recurring Nightmare. Israeli Major General Yossi Peled
- claims he sleeps like a baby. "I wake up every hour and cry," he
- quips. The reason for his restless nights: Peled, who commands
- Israel's northern front, is concerned that Syria is growing
- confident it could wage a new war. Two months ago, says Peled,
- Syria fired at an Israeli warplane that briefly entered Syrian
- airspace "by mistake." On at least one occasion Syrian planes
- flew over Beirut in violation of a tacit Israeli-Syrian
- understanding. Peled's conclusion: "This year they will make a
- decision whether to go to war or not."
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- <p> Nuclear Deuce. American strategists hear Soviet Foreign
- Minister Eduard Shevardnadze might throw a trump card or two on
- the table when conventional-arms talks begin in Vienna. The
- Soviets might make a ploy to Europe by offering to withdraw
- nearly 1,500 Scud, Frog and SS-21 short-range nuclear missiles
- from Eastern Europe and the Western U.S.S.R. if NATO agrees not
- to modernize its aging U.S. Lance nuclear force. The second
- trump: limiting "-offensive" weapons in a zone 100 km (62
- miles) wide straddling the border between East and West Germany.
- </p>
- <p> Pre-emptive Post. Popular Philippine Secretary of Defense
- Fidel Ramos likes to keep everyone guessing: Will he run for
- President in 1992 or stage a coup instead? Hard pressed by her
- supporters, President Cory Aquino may try to head off Ramos'
- candidacy by appointing him Ambassador to the U.S. or the
- Soviet Union. She seems less worried about the rumors that Ramos
- might mount a takeover. Aquino trusts the advice of her senior
- security aides, who insist that "Ramos is a constitutionalist.
- He's ambitious, but he won't step out of line."
- </p>
- <p> House Hunting. Viet Nam is now promising that its 60,000 to
- 70,000 troops will be withdrawn from Kampuchea by the end of
- 1990, so Washington is quietly preparing for better relations.
- According to Vietnamese officials, a private U.S. citizen whom
- they would not name visited Hanoi earlier this year to examine a
- building that the Vietnamese are offering as a prospective U.S.
- embassy.
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