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...South Lawn of the White House. The Reagans, with all their graceful entertaining and the President's old-shoe geniality, are said to be "very private people." The ability to tune out on many occasions, simply not to notice, not to listen, may be part of the armor that carries a candidate through the campaigning. He may have been running for President twelve years as Reagan had in 1980, four years as Carter had in 1976, and that experience may have given him at least a layer or two of insulation from his fellow Americans...
...analysis of the military's campaign against V.D. On the eve of World War I, the stereotypical macho image of men in uniform rang true; in 1917 the War Department was so alarmed by training camp reports of drunkenness and carousing with wanton women that it promised soldiers "invisible armor" to protect them against the "heated temptations" of immorality. A Commission on Training Camp Activities was created with the objective of not only cleaning up the extra-curricular activities of the soldiers but using the American military to set an example of morality before the country and he entire world...
...residually romantic view of war (up until recently, the American view), it was an essentially knightly exercise--a man riding out in resplendent armor (B-52s, perhaps, Hueys, the light observation helicopters known as Loaches, all of that brilliant technology) to rescue the innocent ! from the wicked. In the original versions of the knightly ideal, the wicked were the enemies of Christ, a role for which Communists qualify...
...Half a world away, in Afghanistan, the Soviet Union faces what is frequently, though simplistically, called its own Viet Nam: a made-in-Moscow clique is holed up in Kabul; caravans of Soviet-supplied armor venture forth by day into hostile hinterlands as helicopter gunships and bombers conduct a bloody pacification campaign, complete with carpet bombing. The U.S. is aiding the mujahedin rebels to the tune of many millions of dollars a year...
Bumbling his way through 13th Century France, Broderick'ss Phillippe is the quintessential nerd-in-shining armor. Responding to Navarre's grandiloquent statement that Phillippe's arrival is a sign from God that Navarre must meet his destiny by murdering the vile Bishop who has cast a spell over Navarre and his lady love Isabeau (Michelle Pfeitter), the Mouse quips, "Well, Sir, I talk to God all the time, but meaning no disrespect he never mentioned...