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The TWA order highlighted a recent trend: U.S. lines are continuing to buy American-made planes, while some big non-American carriers are starting to switch to the Airbus. Historically, Air France and Lufthansa bought Boeing but, although they continue to acquire 747s, neither line has ordered any of the...
The confrontational nature of recent history has developed in some individuals on the left (and the right) an appetite for self-righteous hatred and self-dramatizing "unmaskings." In these individuals, the urge to feed this appetite has grown stronger than the impulse to honestly scrutinize the object of the attack...
Veterans Day will acquire more meaning for us if it does not merely celebrate battles of the past, but becomes a focal point for modifying the present to conform with our hopes for the future.
In any event, economic sanctions have a dismal record of failure. The long U.S. trade embargo against Cuba has hurt the island economy, but Castro has managed to acquire most basics from the Soviet Union and other suppliers. In the mid-1960s, certain Latin American governments turned to Europe for...
The other four men denied renomination by their party in our 203 years were John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson and Chester Arthur all raised to power by the death of a President, thus lacking the party loyalty that elected incumbents usually acquire. So if Kennedy does take the nomination...