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...next stage should be one of beginnings. Old alliances and concepts of security, conceived in the cold war, cry out for redefinition to cope with new or resurgent threats, like nationalism. For their own good, the industrialized democracies have to mount an all-out campaign to help rebuild the shattered Soviet bloc into a sturdy component of a peaceful, prosperous, free-trading international order. For its part, the U.S. must formulate a post-cold war agenda that will keep it fully engaged abroad even as it attends to its problems at home...
...Clarence Thomas hearings have been relatively peaceful but the Robert Gates nomination will be an all-out bloodbath...
...cluster of totally independent armies would spell trouble for everyone. The Russian republic's overwhelming military might would intimidate others in the confederation. Ethnic conflicts, especially in the south, would be more likely to escalate to all-out war. And a Russian-dominated central army might invite a replay of the disaster that has befallen Yugoslavia, where the supposedly federal army is in reality a Serbian army...
There are exceptions. The nine-year-old Metropolitan Assembly of God, located in a Do the Right Thing neighborhood in Brooklyn, N.Y., goes all-out to recruit restless teenagers and has a 9,000-student Sunday school. While many of the fastest-growing congregations are young, First Baptist Church of Hammond, Ind., famous for its armada of Sunday-school buses, has been a Fundamentalist fixture for decades...
Neither those locked in conflict within the country's borders nor those watching from a distance could explain exactly what guided events last week as the showdown between the Yugoslav People's Army and the secessionist republics of Slovenia and Croatia first pushed toward all-out civil war, then pulled back in a shaky cease-fire. What baffled most was not so much the sporadic bloodshed -- all but foreordained by centuries of ethnic antagonisms -- but the political and military muddle. No one seemed to be in charge, and the country appeared to be sliding into chaos. The federation's civilian...