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Following the missiles, fear and alarm. "The second cold war has begun," shrilled the Italian weekly Panorama. French President François Mitterrand warned that the situation was comparable in gravity with the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 or the Berlin blockade of 1948-49. American Sovietologist Seweryn Bialer, who has just returned from Moscow, where he had extensive interviews with Soviet officials, observes that "a test is coming between the superpowers. The Soviets are frustrated, angry. They have to reassert their manhood, to regain the influence in the international arena that today only America enjoys...
Mayor of West Berlin and sole candidate for election as President of West Germany
Certainly this all sounds quite bizarre and even unworkable; but it would not be unique. West Berlin has existed under almost exactly analogous conditions for nearly 40 years, with only a few real disruptions. Maintenance of a balance in this fashion is thus not only possible, but even desirable for the West Bank. As is the nature of all true compromise, each party would get "half a loaf." Israel's military security would not be as great, true; but it would be enough. The Palestinians, whether on their own or in some combination with Jordan, would not be completely autonomous...
...faces are unforgettable; wide-eyed children in Hebrew schools, a wise elder peering over his glasses, a handsome singer in a Hasidic choir. Many of the pictures reflect anti-Semitic repression in pre-war Poland and Germany. In one photo, Vishniac's little daughter is posed beside a Berlin shop window displaying a demoniac device that purported to measure the difference between Aryan and non-Aryan skulls. Most of the subjects were unwilling to be photographed, so Vishniac hid his camera, first from the Jews but then from the Nazis. In a moving foreword, Novelist Elie Wiesel calls Vishniac...
Hard liners have greeted the two Soviet actions as typical of Soviet crisis-making politics, saying that they resemble the way in which Krushchev fueled the Berlin crisis in the '60s. As Zbigniew Brezinski, President Carter's National Security Adviser, reportedly said last week, the hard-liners have counseled the Administration to "stay cool and on course...