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Monitor articles for December 17, 1986
- AWACS vs. Nimrod: British government faces no-win decision. Air Force wants US model, but public wants local product
- Debt: a Christmas gift that keeps on giving
- News In Brief
- Pay for public service
- Deep in December
- Turkey settles for less than it wanted in defense aid from US
- What happened to freedom in academe?
- The child-abuser's admission of guilt
- On West Bank, feelings run high. Palestinian youth seem agreed on need to confront Israel - through violence or academics
- Soviet leader ousts prominent critic. Toppling of powerful party boss could boost Gorbachev's reform
- A Christmas Eve tradition
- Ex-Reagan appointees unite. Former officials plan to back Reagan agenda
- Pakistan ethnic violence seen to subside. As troops patrol Karachi, students criticize government leaders
- Iranian-Soviet ties warm up a bit - but are still far from cozy. New economic pact serves both economic, geopolitical interests
- Tax revision gives extra meaning to seasonal giving this year
- Environment joins budget at top of Louisiana's problem list. Environment agency's budget, gypsum dumping are hot issues
- Union Carbide suit charges Indian negligence
- The real issue: helping people, not places
- California vote speeds US drive to make English `official'. Hispanic, civil liberties groups oppose move, question its purpose
- Tracing the history of concepts and ideas in modern physics
- Progress
- Jury still out on Ryan's rebuilding job; McMahon to Raiders?
- Little Known British tradition - secrecy. Britain, for all its history of democracy, is a very secretive society - the most secret in the Western wo...
- Where `children's theater' reaches a consistently high level
- `Give my regards to (the traffic on) old Broadway'
- Foreign aid: a plus for the US farmer's tally
- What would the holiday be without `The Nutcracker' ballet?
- Reading the warning signs and averting money problems
- Insider role or not, Drexel may see junk-bond strength fading
- Still life in winter
- Support for the needy
- War `along the border'
- Yugoslavia's regional rivals wrangle
- South Africa: rival lights, rival visions
- For the livestock on your list...
- Helping, not dumping, disruptive pupils. Washington, D.C., school system tries an alternative program
- A replay of game in which US's Seirawan defeated Kasparov
- Koop battles tobacco firms over hazards to nonsmokers
- Iran `not vulnerable' to Soviet drive. Geography, quick moves by the Pentagon could thwart USSR moves
- Grass-roots group urges plan that goes further than medicaid
- Reagan kept a loose rein. Led to staff overreaching, Turner says
- Books to help the bargain-hunter with his collection
- A home-grown, Texas Christmas tree
- In defense of the civil right to laugh
- A family gathering
- Is there room for genuine political opposition in tiny Singapore? Opposition member's ouster from Parliament raises some eyebrows