Scholastic Update articles from February 1992

Scholastic Update archives from February 1992

The people's choice. (Election '92) (Cover Story)
February 7, 1992... A YEAR IS A LIFETIME IN politics. Just ask President Bush. Twelve months ago, the U.S. leader had rallied Americans--and 27 other nations--behind the cause of a tiny, oil-rich nation in the Persian Gulf. Under the umbrella of Operation...

The race for the White House. (Election '92) (Cover Story)
February 7, 1992... In many ways, the U.S. electoral system is like a horse race. The hectic schedule of primaries and caucuses requires major candidates to crisscross the country, shaking as many hands and kissing as many babies as possible in a 24-hour day....

Eight for the prize. (Election '92) (Cover Story)
February 7, 1992... Over these four pages, you will meet the three Republicans and five Democrats who hope to be 1992 Presidential nominees. Each hopeful is barnstorming the country, trying to prove that his ideas are stronger, fresher, and better than those of...

Issues that count. (Election '92) (Cover Story)
February 7, 1992... Many political experts believe that President Bush's toughest foe is not any one of the other President candidates. It's the U.S. economy, which has been mired in a recession for more than a year. Millions of Americans are facing hard...

Playing the race card. (Election '92) (Cover Story)
February 7, 1992... It was President George Bush's and the Republican Party's worst nightmare. Standing at a podium in a Washington hotel last December, David Duke, a former Nazi, leader of the Ku Klux Klan, and member of other anti-black and anti-Jewish hate...

All in a day's campaign. (a day in the campaign of Bill Clinton) (Election '92) (Cover Story)
February 7, 1992... 7:45 a.m.--Guest Quarters Hotel, Boston, Mass. Most Engleberg is in a hurry. He's the man responsible for getting Bill Clinton from city to city and event to event, and he's already facing crisis first thing in the morning. In 45...

Back to you, Dan. (media coverage of campaigns) (includes related article) (Election '92) (Cover Story)
February 7, 1992... IN AUGUST, MORE THAN 2,000 delegates from around the country will descend on Houston, Texas, for the four-day Republican National Convention. Many will be party faithfuls who travel to the convention every election year. Two regulars who...

Why kids hate politics. (Election '92) (Cover Story)
February 7, 1992... Mention the word politics to 16-year-old Anna Johnston and watch her eyes glaze over behind her funky cats-eye glasses. "I'm not interested," says the sophomore from Norwalk, Connecticut. "It doesn't relate to my life. I've never thought...

Just do it. (how to get involved in politics) (Election '92) (Cover Story)
February 7, 1992... Once you're fired up about an issue, what's the best way to get involved? It depends. Do you want to work on the front lines of a cause, marching in demonstrations? Or would you be more comfortable behind the scenes, writing newsletters,...

In the midnight hour. (Who Has the Bomb?)
February 21, 1992... YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE realized it, but for the past 47 years, a clock has been ticking silently toward a worldwide nuclear catastrophe. This so-called doomsday clock is the creation of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a magazine published...

After the explosion. (Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan) (Who Has the Bomb?)
February 21, 1992... On August 6, 1945, the United States ushered in the nuclear age by dropping an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. In an instant, thousands of people were killed as Hiroshima was engulfed by a raging firestorm. But compared to the...

Where the bombs are. (Who Has the Bomb?)
February 21, 1992... AS THE SOVIET UNION SLIPPED OUT OF EXISTENCE IN 1991, ITS 15 republics became independent, mostly democratic nations. For the safety of the workd, that was good news--and bad news as well. The good news is that the long, dangerous, nuclear...

Joining the nuclear club. (Who Has the Bomb?)
February 21, 1992... iraq Last March, only days after the end of the Gulf War, President Bush announced that the U.S. and its allies had achieved one of their most important military objectives. The U.S. Air Force's "pinpoint attacks," Bush said, "have put...

Whose finger is on the button? (the former Soviet Union) (Who Has the Bomb?)
February 21, 1992... LAST SUMMER, SOVIET soldiers looking for illegal drugs at a road-block in Russia searched a truck and found, not drugs, but nuclear-weapons parts stolen from a Soviet bomb laboratory. In October, a Swiss businessman was caught carrying samples...

Wasting away. (nuclear weapons industry) (Who Has the Bomb?)
February 21, 1992... LOOK AROUND ROCKY Flats, Colorado, and you'll see a battleground of the Cold War--scarred, ravaged, and deserted. For 37 years, the United Sates fought Communism there, not in combat, but in trying to build faster, deadlier, more destructive...

The world's nuclear police. (Who Has the Bomb?)
February 21, 1992... CALL THEM THE A-bomb squad. They are members of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and they travel the world trying to hunt down nuclear bombs. The world depends on these men and women to know which countries have nuclear arsenals,...

The dawn of the bomb. (Manhattan Project) (Who Has the Bomb?)
February 21, 1992... THE YEAR WAS 1943. The world was at war. And 19-year-old Frederick de Hoffman was rolling westward through middle America on the Santa Fe Railway's Super Chief Express. As he watched the wheat fields scroll past his window, he wondered where...