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...Supreme Commander, U.S. General Bernard Rogers. Desperate to bolster his case, Wörner invited to Bonn a Swiss homosexual actor who claimed to have evidence of misconduct by Kiessling. The "evidence" was unpersuasive. Moreover, the Defense Minister's methods of supporting his accusations seemed both unsavory and absurd. There were rumors that he would have to resign...
...Absurd though they seemed, such incidents ominously recalled the notorious Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and '70s. This time, however, the Chinese responded with unexpected hostility. Intellectuals either passively resisted or openly condemned the government's efforts. Peasants, who account for 80% of the country's 1 billion or so people and who have benefited in recent years from reforms that allow them to accumulate wealth in return for higher productivity, scorned charges that their rising living standard was evidence of moral decay...
...Sarajevo airport, for instance, is absurd. Fog rolls in almost every day just in time to delay or cancel the plane from Belgrade. A radar landing system was installed recently, but pilots who have managed to reach the city say that it often does not work. Landing-strip lights wink out during the nation's power brownouts. Trains sound like a good idea, but one New York visitor learned to his bafflement that it is not possible while still outside Yugoslavia to book a first-class train seat for a journey within Yugoslavia?Zagreb to Sarajevo, for example...
Brittan was critical of the Community's industrial policy, saying, "The Community risks having the same kind of mess in industry that we have in agriculture. It is absurd for Brussels to try to determine which industries can grow...
Kissinger, while accepting that wording, added a note urging that "conditionality" not be interpreted "in a manner that leads to a Marxist-Leninist victory." In a briefing for reporters, he explained that it would be "absurd" to stop military aid to El Salvador on human rights grounds if the cutoff resulted in a victory for a Communist regime that would kill even more indiscriminately. But if Salvadoran rightists do not believe that there is a risk of an aid cutoff, how can they ever be persuaded to curb their terrorism? Said one commissioner: "We never really resolved the dilemma...