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Monitor articles for January 20, 1987

• Byron, Shelley and company
• In business and in college, blacks caught in a squeeze. Black colleges caught between shrinking pool of students and competition from white colleges
• Japanese worry that US ready to wage war on trade surplus
• A New Year's bash that's refused to blow out
• Astronomers search the skies for other planetary systems
• Clearing the air. By 1988, wood stoves redesigned to meet EPA standards will be cleaner, safer, and much more efficient
• W-4 redux
• Preserving paper records. Experts use modern and medieval techniques
• Battle for House defense-panel chair. Four Democrats campaign for leadership of influential panel
• Iranian gains heighten Arab concerns. Fall of key Iraqi city could bring Iran closer to clear-cut victory
• The daily surprise package
• Urbane, independent Zhao cuts formidable figure
• Win over Kiwis puts Conner in America's Cup final
• Super Bowl foes often too tense for best games
• In business and in college, blacks caught in a squeeze. In US corporations, minorities are stuck at mid-level jobs; can't jump hurdles to top posts
• Short shrift on long distance. Across US, many fledgling firms prove inept or fraudulent.
• Salvador poor skeptical of new draft law. Many doubt it will halt forced recruitment of their young
• Gladys A. Reichard on kinship
• Remembering a homecoming
• The wartime years of Winston S. Churchill
• China shuffle: a setback for Deng. Changing of party chief shows reassertion of orthodoxy
• TV focuses on Vietnam MIAs. Syndicated documentary is poignant, unnerving
• France's trend toward middle-of-road politics is set back by unrest
• Israel needs more US aid to spur economy and immigration, economist says
• Robbed of your joy?
• `Eyes on the Prize': reliving the civil rights struggle
• Argentine human rights groups refuse to let military off the hook
• How a catalyst works
• The Iran affair - and Reagan's close ties with Israel
• Getting America moving again
• The commissar visits the Pope
• Baby-sitting co-ops - a workable option