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John Naisbitt, speaking in a packed ARCO Forum of Public Affairs, said people would remember the 1980s as a "tremendous shaking period" that would alter every aspect of human life...
...unprovoked aggressor in Central America. International law is a worthwhile thing, and is useful when the parties involved share an accepted notion of the global balance of power. However, there are many powers who do not respect such a notion, and are thus revolutionary in their efforts to alter that balance. It is foolish to think that international law will work with these states--notice what little recourse the Islamic world had when Afghanistan was invaded. Unfortunately for us, the Sandinistas have inaugurated Nicaragua into this fraternity of outlaw nations. Even while the United States was giving Nicaragua economic...
According to the broadcast, Westmoreland had engaged in "a conspiracy at the highest levels" of the military to "suppress and alter" intelligence data regarding enemy troop strength in the months before the January 1968 Tet offensive. Westmoreland, said CBS, omitted from the order of battle, the official estimate of enemy forces, some 100,000 self-defense, secret self-defense and political cadre. Westmoreland's suit challenges the CBS charge that hi doing so he deceived President Lyndon Johnson and the Joint Chiefs of Staff about the Westmoreland growing military threat facing U.S. servicemen...
...from his own particular brand of loneliness. The tragedy of them all living in a house with paper-thin walls and yet still so lonely and so insulated, is something that Jennings lifts out of the melodrama, bringing it up to Williams at his best. As Williams's stage alter-ego, the Writer chronicles it all for us, commenting to his landlady, "I've learned so much here ... I should be paying you tuition...
Duarte's proposal does not alter his oft-stated insistence that the guerrillas would not be allowed to shoot their way into power. Instead, he said, they would have a chance to compete in nationwide municipal and legislative elections scheduled for March 1985. Nor did the President mention the reorganization of the 41,000-member Salvadoran army that the insurgents have long demanded. By calling for a face-to-face meeting with the guerrilla comandantes rather than with their civilian spokesmen (see chart), Duarte was showing that he truly wanted to get to the heart of the insurgency...