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...here are taking," said Linda Gryczan, the lead plaintiff in a suit challenging the state's sodomy law. "This is different from being one in a million in New York or San Francisco. We are not anonymous anymore." Unlike gay parades in some big cities, the kind depicted in alarmist antigay videos used for fund raising by conservative Christian groups, this 30-minute procession had no men in nun drag, no topless women on motorcycles. The marchers mostly looked like the cowpokes and earth mothers next door. Even so, many closeted gays stayed away. One would-be participant watched longingly...
...other experts say such analysis is unnecessarily alarmist and damaging to American business. "I think those engines don't mean squat," says Charles Bernard, a former Pentagon official. "The French make an engine that size, as well as the Brits and the Germans. A lot of people would sell them an engine. There are mysterious, scary transactions, but this...
...want to be an alarmist on North Korea," Secretary of Defense William Perry told TIME last week, "but I take the threat of military action very seriously." Two-thirds of Pyongyang's army is stationed within 100 miles of the border and could march to the demilitarized zone in an hour and to Seoul in two. The North, he says, is "persisting in the development of a nuclear-weapons program." And, adds Perry, "it's a very erratic regime. I don't know of anybody anywhere who can predict with confidence what philosophical views the North Korean leadership has about...
Consider this alarmist statement, listed as one of the "assumptions" of the entire report...
...early 1980s, young GOP House members adopted a new strategy for combatting the insurmountable Democratic majority. Led by Newt Gingrich, they decided to take advantage of C-Span TV cameras situated 24 hours a day in the House chamber by making alarmist, often untrue, speeches from the podium about what the Democrats were doing to the House. Most of the time, there were few other members in the chamber; sometimes, there were none because everyone else had gone home for the night. These tactics so infuriated Speaker Tip O'Neill that he directed some untoward language at Gingrich from...