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Edition number counted from The World in 1987 = 1. Publication month not confirmed; year only. The reprint is The Economist's own web copy of the original article. This is the first edition of the series; the World in 2016 index page calls it "the first edition of The World In...".
Note first, a couple of things that will not happen in 1987. The Americans will not send up any space shuttles.
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The Russians will not repair the radioactive wreckage at Chernobyl.
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it has to be assumed that Colonel Qaddafi will still be around in 1987
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Reagan will not scrap the SDI except as part of a comprehensive arms reduction deal, which shows no sign of emerging in 1987.
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In 1987 the Russians will not agree to pull back a third of a million solders
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This is the strongest reason for expecting that 1987, while it will produce no historic breakthrough in east-west relations, will see further movements long the arms control road – modest movements, with continued creaking and straining, but perceptible ones.
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“1987”, proclaimed the cover of the very first TWI, would see (among other things) “a nasty shock for Mrs Thatcher”, “a last-ditch push by America's moral majority” and “a Japanese takeover of a major Wall Street firm”.
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he predicted that Nomura Securities would take over Merrill Lynch.
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