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...spectacle of Saddam Hussein conducting politics by other means concentrates the mind wonderfully. His Arab brethren have more reason than ever to mistrust his claim to be their benevolent leader. The radicals of the region have a new incentive for moderation. Virtually every nation in the world that relies on oil from the gulf now realizes with fresh urgency the importance of restoring a balance of power there. Iran has served as a counterweight to Iraq before, and it could do so again. If Iran were to bring about the release of the hostages in Lebanon, it would be rewarded...
From the reviews, you may think that Gremlins 2: The New Batch is about a cute creature who battles his evil brethren to save Manhattan. You may read that RoboCop 2 is about a police officer, half man, half machine, who battles his evil robot twin to save Detroit. You may have heard that Total Recall is about Arnold Schwarzenegger trying to reclaim his memory and save Mars...
...scarce. Hardships, when they are acknowledged at all, are attributed to the need to maintain a strong defense. Internal travel is carefully monitored, and households are organized into groups of five, with each family encouraged to report subversive activities by its neighbors. Still, few North Koreans admit envying their brethren in the South. Most accept their government's description of South Korea as an undemocratic U.S.-puppet regime plagued by AIDS, pollution and prohibitive costs...
...Some of your brethren in the Southern Baptist Convention have expressed outrage at your meeting with prominent Roman Catholics...
...formal unification is still months away, East Germans demonstrated last week that they are at one with the democratic spirit of their Western brethren. Fully 93% of the East German electorate turned out to hammer the last nail in the Communists' coffin. A three-party alliance headed by the CDU, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's sister party, shocked the supposedly front-running Social Democratic Party by winning 48% of the vote. The SPD captured only 22%. The conservative alliance fell just eight seats short of a majority in the 400-member Volkskammer, or parliament. Although that forced negotiations over...