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Monitor articles for December 16, 1988
- US trading partners out to damp inflation - but US balks
- Removing the poison
- Crystalline landmark for Los Angeles. Frank O. Gehry will design L.A. Philharmonic's home
- The Sherlock Holmeses of chemical detection
- Viewers have their hands full with `Twins'. Schwarzenegger, DeVito in comedy
- Who was Mother Goose?
- Roxbury College goal: to serve as a catalyst for inner-city progress
- Basic bomb-hunting: `First look, then dig'
- Muscle Shoals: 31 years in mothballs
- No farther. Subsistence farmers of Burkina Faso wrestle the encroaching desert into submission
- PLO, US, and Israel
- American Jews propose tests of PLO seriousness
- Pleasant and elastic phraseologer for hire
- Where politics is all in the family. In South Asia, a few names have held the political spotlight for decades. Cultural traditions and strong family...
- They catch colors from the air and make trends
- Dukakis plays a more somber budget tune. Massachusetts governor cuts 300 state jobs and empties `rainy day' fund
- Paraguayans begin to think post-Stroessner
- Like US, third world has tax cheats; Uruguay thinks it has a system
- Lethal legacy of wars past lingers in today's Belgium
- FREEZE FRAMES
- Coats of many colors. In person or by mail, consultant takes guesswork out of painting home exteriors. PAINT ME BEAUTIFUL
- US Army consigns old weapons to the ash heap of history
- Winter sunset
- A diatribe - sort of - against the Age of `Who Cares?'
- US education: reform still at top of agenda
- Bright fa,cades and serious insights. A witty satirist looks at the fruits of the women's movement
- Cleaning Washington's forgotten river
- Nation's first commercial reactor gets heave-ho
- Putting the genie back in the bottle. Propaganda, proliferation, and dollars for disposal are hurdles at Geneva disarmament talks
- Karl Malone - a superstar who plays with the enthusiasm of a schoolboy
- A sigh of relief - and joy - heard round the Arab world. AFTER SHULTZ'S SURPRISE
- News In Brief
- Spiritual sense and peace
- New issues usher in agriculture secretary. WINDS OF CHANGE BLOW A MODERATE COURSE
- The Arafat visa flap
- Soviet-Japanese treaty: Who gives a hoot?
- Two small steps ... giant leaps for mankind? Soviets and US make historic policy shifts
- A breakthrough in the Middle East
- Scandinavian design: a gas mask for every man, woman, and child
- Far-reaching plan to clean up Los Angeles air faces setback. Businesses say proposal would hurt local economy
- Bush nominees leave GOP right feeling uneasy
- Impressionist art seen as a record of society
- Bush and Reagan: differences, similarities
- Mix, match, and sketch it out: a how-to guide for home restyling