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Capitalist Partners. The effort to boost exports has pushed some Communist nations into a further affront to ideology: inviting capitalists in as partners to make their industries more efficient. In Hungary, for example, Corning Glass Works of the U.S. owns 49% of a Hungarian company that will produce blood gas analyzers and Sweden's Volvo has a minority share in a vehicle-production plant...
...There is no shifting of blame, no relief in the notion that "this is the way things are." We are reluctantly willing to accept as inevitable natural disasters, but little else. Indeed, even nature must be put in its place through technology, and even death is somehow considered an affront, a failure of medicine, or of right living. Disease, poverty and other ancient afflictions simply are not accepted as part of the human condition. Perhaps rightly so-and yet the conviction that they can be banished completely is a tremendous burden because each setback, each delay, is seen...
George views the American Rebellion as an almost personal affront. There are no grays in his view, only stark blacks and whites, wrongs and rights. Over and over, he emphasizes that "those deluded people" have forgotten their duty, to him and to England. "Every means of distressing America must meet with my concurrence," he wrote Lord North last year, "as it tends to bringing them to feel the necessity of returning to their duty." He quoted to North with approval the opinion of Major General Frederick Haldimand, one of the government's leading experts on America, that "nothing...
...feel a personal affront from you self-righteous busybodies, fraught with your fears that somebody, somewhere, might be enjoying something other than the watery sustenance of Bible Belt standards for sexual normality...
Though anti-Israeli demonstrations by West Bank Arabs had been increasing since February, the march clearly provoked last week's riots. Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin called Gush Emunin's action a challenge to government authority and a needless affront to Arab sensitivities. Still, the government has been ambivalent about the extremist group's wish to settle on West Bank soil. It has been unable-or unwilling-to prevent the zealots from stealthily moving tents and equipment into the occupied territories and staking out three sites that are now existing communities. While condemning these illegal settlements, the government...