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...bitterness of the civil war was illustrated last March by violent riots in Herat, where Muslim peasants and 2,000 defecting Kabul troops went on a bloody rampage, killing hundreds of Khalq officials, army soldiers and foreigners, including at least 20 Soviet advisers and their families. Kabul responded with an all-out attack by helicopter gunships and jets, leaving some 20,000 Afghans dead in the streets. Though it crushed the riot, the massive retaliation reinforced the tribesmen's conviction that the Khalq regime is an atheistic puppet of the Soviet Union. Said one unrepentant factory business manager...
...momentous development: the opening to China. As he notes, "policy emerges when concept encounters opportunity, "and Nixon realized that the bloody border clashes between Soviet and Chinese troops in the summer of 1969 presented just such an opportunity. Fearful of a pre-emptive attack by Moscow or an all-out war, the Chinese were looking for a counter-threat to Soviet pressure. At that very moment, the U.S. was subtly signaling Peking that it was interested in a fundamental change in their relationship. There followed what Kissinger calls "an intricate minuet, so stylized that neither side needed to bear...
...defense, which played superbly all afternoon--though the depressingly dismal Lion offense did not test the Harvard team too severely--came up with the second score. Columbia quarterbac Bob Conroy, with a third-and-five at his own 20 yardline, scampered away from an all-out Harvard blitz, just lofting a pass over the arms of hard-charging middle linebacker Bob Woolway...
Kissinger's warning, which he later conceded might have been more floridly gloomy than he intended it to be, also contained a surprising personal admission: America's longstanding deterrent strategy based on all-out nuclear strike capability against Soviet population centers may have been ill-conceived in the first place. It was, he conceded, an overly limited, one-sided strategy "to which I myself contributed." Implicitly, he almost seemed to endorse Charles de Gaulle's skeptical rationale for building the French force de frappe in 1959; that is, in the final analysis, no U.S. President could...
With little action on the right, Brown has been cozying up to the left. He believes the Haydens can help him put together a national constituency based on opposition to nuclear power, all-out support of solar energy, attacks on big corporations, a noninterventionist foreign policy and a lingering nostalgia for the impassioned politics and communal undertakings of the 1960s. The Governor has even adopted much of the Haydens' rhetoric, including their favorite image for describing the energy crisis: "The Viet Nam of the 1980s...