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Monitor articles for December 23, 1986
- UNICEF aids the children
- Home for the holidays
- Li Po on flutes, monkeys, and mountains
- At high-tech toymakers, it's visions of '87
- Activists turn to violence to push ecological causes. Tactics in Iceland show radical side, debate rekindled
- `Greenhouse effect' on climate is a cloudy issue. Recent studies suggest that warming trend may be natural fluctuation
- Foster care called wrong approach for poor neglected children. Report urges they stay at home, that training be brought to them
- New York program turns out new breed of `flower children'
- Home of Christmas tree takes a bough. Strasbourg celebrates enchanting evergreen, Yuletide tradition
- Did US lose bargaining chip in talks on Iran assets?
- Moscow pleased Vietnam reformers got boost in shuffle. Soviets see possibility of liberalized economy, d'etente with China
- US politics, winter, 1986-87
- TOYS THROUGH TIME. Put some jogging shoes on your imagination, because we're going to take a dash backwards to long ago. Actually, to lo-o-o-ong ago.
- France and US pulled deeper into Chad-Libya battle. Libya attacks in Chad's north bring calls from President Habr'e for aid
- Marina Whitman
- Stone throwing or prayer?
- To make his speaking beautiful
- Ordering art by mail has advantages if you can avoid the pitfalls
- The new Washington morality
- The great debate on SDI. Three books present more than 50 essays, speeches, and analyses that give both `facts' and a spectrum of opinion on the pro...
- AN OLD SALEM CHRISTMAS. There is still a place in America where people celebrate in a quiet, simple way. There is no hoopla, no commercialism, not e...
- Economist with ringside seat
- Don't punish contras for executive branch mistakes
- `Belgrade Six' trial
- Bid for democracy in China. Student protests cool but test Peking's reform plan
- Coach Terry O'Reilly has hockey's Bruins bearin' down again
- To the streets in China
- News In Brief
- Privatizing foreign policy: deregulation to an extreme
- Helping Brazil street kids survive their way
- Controversial peace institute finally gets (just) off the ground. For decades, advocates fought for a `Peace Academy.' Congress finally passed a bil...
- Canadian makes waves at the UN. Stephen Lewis's favorite causes: Africa, women's rights, UN itself
- Race tensions surface in New York. Koch says city should `rise up in wrath' over attack on blacks