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...from under the big top of American diplomacy. All of a sudden, the think tanks and back rooms of the policymaking establishment are filled with a new kind of head scratching. Some who have spent their careers fretting about the end of the world (the big bang of nuclear Armageddon) are suddenly lamenting "the end of history"; now that the good guys have won and the Manichaean struggle is over, humanity will have nothing but a lot of boring technical and local problems to deal with. It is a silly idea but a telling one, for it underscores the dilemma...
...another, immensely important respect, the two men meeting in the Med this week have already transformed the superpower relationship: for the first time since the beginning of the cold war over 40 years ago, the American and Soviet leaderships have a shared interest not just in averting Armageddon but also in achieving the success of important components of Soviet internal and foreign policy. That is already a breakthrough that makes this a landmark year and augurs well for the future...
Meanwhile back at the ranch, the usual operations have been neglected while Prophet and her followers gear up for surviving the Armageddon she predicted in 1987, when she received a message from what she calls her "ascended masters." This exalted band includes Jesus, Buddha and Guru Ma's former husband the late Mark L. Prophet, who three decades ago founded the religion on an amalgam of Christianity and Eastern faiths...
...things are a little different now, and the producers of the latest Bond venture, Licence to Kill, know it. People are jaded now; the threat of nuclear Armageddon doesn't seem to faze them. Bye-bye SPECTRE, bye-bye SMIRSH, there is a new agent of terror in the modern world...
...winter was far less bucolic. It was an image of immense walls of flame thundering across the canopy of lodgepole pine forests, leaping entire ridgelines in a searing specter of natural destruction that mocked man's effort to contain it. The fires of 1988 appeared to be an environmental Armageddon. "If you looked at the fire storms, you would have thought that nothing would have survived," says Ed Lewis, executive director of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, an ecological watchdog group...