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Monitor articles for December 17, 1985
- News In Brief
- Imperial problem
- Tracking the signs of our phantasmagorical times
- Conflict between S. Africa and rebels grows more vicious
- Visual, verbal images of a turbulent era
- Beneath the sugar frosting of this `Nutcracker' is a respect for children
- A Newport Christmas. Warmed by thousands of poinsettias, its extravagant mansions take on a homey festiveness
- Does marriage matter?
- On home video: a C. S. Lewis fairy tale for children
- Chinese grandmas sing the party line
- The neglected resource: Women in the developing world
- The dollar needs a comedown, not stability
- How glimpse at competitor got Canadians who build transit cars on a faster track
- ...to the slum
- Well-built, well-managed space probe isn't ready to retire yet
- Argentine Afrikaners tell fleeing South Africans: Don't come to us
- South Africa blacks boycott white-owned stores to force change
- US watches for Soviet flexibility on Afghanistan withdrawal. After proposing its own plan, US hopes for positive Soviet response
- Legislatures now the focus of war on drunk driving
- Lytton Strachey on the Great Exhibition
- Uncertainty clouds 1986 economy. Tax reform stall and Gramm-Rudman place forecasters at opposite ends
- `Bah, humbug!' to violent toys
- From the village...
- Postponing tobacco reckoning
- Superinsulation can cut heating costs to zero, even up North
- Democrats in '88: a leap from the void
- Ask The Gardeners, Q&A
- Diversity in Eastern Europe
- DC-3 flies exuberantly into its 50th birthday. `Gooney bird' has served in peace and war and is now older than most pilots flying it
- Letters to the Editor. The plow and the cow
- Alfons'in, and Argentine democracy, strengthened by trial of the generals
- UN anniversary session had mixed bag of results
- Columnist gives daily `two bits' worth of observation to readers. Chicago's Mike Royko says city isn't as much fun without Daley
- Tax reform -- a time for sharing necessary sacrifices
- Chinese fight accusations of forced abortion. Family-planning officials say they use persuasion -- not coercion
- EPA sets emission standards for wood stoves. New models are clean burning and more fuel efficient
- Two decades later I found doves in the Unisphere