View: Castro’s Cuba cracked by Soviet retreat
Our view argues Castro's Cuba is isolated as Moscow signals pullback. Soviet aid totaling 5 to 6 billion yearly sustains Cuba’s economy. without it, shortages grow and dissident pressure rises. The regime faces deeper cutbacks, unrest, and possible elite fissures as reform spreads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doggerel
Havana
Fidel Revienta
Fidel
Mongolia
Managua
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Castro
Nicolae Ceausescu
Romania
Soviet Union
Europe
Moscow
Kremlin
Caribbean
Mikhail Gorbachev
Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez
Warrenville site urged for new elementary school
A Warrenville resident writes to Aiken County officials urging the DeMedicis property as the best site for the planned Warrenville Elementary. He cites ready build conditions, public water from Beech Island, low long term costs, and good bus visibility, contrasting with two other contested parcels. The letter also contains an obituary for Cleve Thomas, detailing his life, community service, skills, and family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Areville
Aiken County
Warrenville
Sf Medicis City
Beech Island
Melissa Johnson
Schley Street
Cleve Thomas
Aiken
Jesse Cleveland Thomas
Savannah
Lis
du Pont
Stanley Williamson
Letters to the Editor Policy At The Aiken Standard
The Aiken Standard invites letters to the editor signed by the writer with a readable mailing address. Brief direct letters are preferred and letters may be tested and condensed. Send to The Editor The Aiken Standard Box 456 Aiken SC 29802.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aiken Standard
Aiken, S.C
Arts fight over NEA funding sparks cultural war
The fall Arts Quarterly piece argues public support for the arts is tied to public nourishment. It condemns NEA funding of Chelsea's Kitchen Theatre for a controversial Annie Sprinkle show and frames the clash as a broader battle between secular avant garde art and traditional values.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rederick Hart
Arts Quarterly
National Endowment For the Arts
Hart
Pati
NEA
New York States
Chelsea
Amerika
Hamilton Reed Armstrong
Andreas Serrano
Martin Scorsese
Madonna
Od Amerie
New York Times
America
Joseph Farah
Homocabal
Joseph Papp
Mary Schmit Campty
White House
Global discourse and the rising nationalism crisis
The piece argues media speeds define a global village but fail to foster real discourse on key issues. It examines nationalism in Lithuania Latvia and Estonia, Germany, and Israel and the Intifada, noting scholars miss the deeper history and psyche needed for understanding. It urges academics to join urgent public discourse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshall McLuhan
New Yur City
Germany
Acase
Israel
Lithuania
Estonia
Latvia
Mikhail Gorbachev
America
Europe
Most-Fits and Murky Sizing Parade in Everyday Life
A humorous meditation on products labeled fits most things yet rarely fit the individual. The author riffs on car floormats, pen fillers, wristwatch bands, neckwear, radios, garden hose nozzles, and socks, arguing mass production pushes generic sizes while personal fit remains elusive and frustrating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J Ly
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St. Mary Help of Christians Church
Patrick J. Buchanan
Tribune Media Services
Los Angeles
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Max Lerner
Madde the Radio
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