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...Afghanistan is our Viet Nam. Look at what has happened. We began by simply backing a friendly regime; slowly we got more deeply involved; then we started manipulating the regime-sometimes using desperate measures-and now? Now we are bogged down in a war we cannot win and cannot abandon. It's ridiculous. A mess. And but for Brezhnev and company we would never have got into it in the first place." The general had said what many of us involved with Afghanistan-in the KGB, the army and outside-felt but would not stick our necks...
...dismayed at your pessimism over the future of Solidarity [Oct. 25]. Although the Polish parliament has officially destroyed the independent trade union, the Polish people have undergone too much anguish in their tragic past to abandon their cries for freedom. Even if General Wojciech Jaruzelski has been successful in banning Solidarity, the dream of independence will reshape itself and continue...
...broken, the institutional investors got the jitters. On Thursday thousands who feared that the rally might stall decided to take their profits while they had a chance. But individual investors, many of whom were jumping back into the market for the first time in years, continued to buy with abandon. As the deluge of orders poured in, the electronic tape that records trades lagged behind by as much as 64 minutes. When the selling frenzy ended, the Dow average of blue chips had lost 15 points during the day. Hundreds of second-tier stocks, however, continued to rise. The immense...
Despite the lackluster record of embargoes, Renwick argues that they have a useful, if mainly symbolic, purpose. They are often the only way, short of war, for one nation to express its outrage at the conduct of another. Concludes Renwick: "To abandon altogether the idea of recourse to sanctions in response to acts of aggression or other flagrant violations of international law would be to reduce the choice of response to one between military action and acquiescence-an unattractive choice at the best of times and particularly so in a nuclear age." That said, Renwick cautions against any great expectations...
...inherent lack of ability on King's part, but moreso in his insecurity. He has been typed as a mass-market horror writer, and is experiencing the fatal pangs of self-doubt. King has been convinced that in order to establish himself as a serious writer, he must abandon his ghost stories. He does so, not realizing that horror is, in fact, the most effective vehicle for his creative sense...