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...first journal has now hardened into not only a seagoing veteran but a self-conscious author as well: "I am in half a mind to publish!" Since three volumes seem commercially more promising than two, Talbot breaks off his narrative while he and his ship hover on the brink of disaster. Unlike its predecessor, Close Quarters advertises its own sequel. And that seems well worth waiting for, not only to see what happens to Edmund Talbot but to watch a Nobel laureate, the wind at his back for the final leg, sail...
...Soviet Union, the situation is quite different. Soviet politicians must live with the fear that Chernobyl generated, and it is possible that this accident triggered a change in their thinking about the contamination that would result from nuclear war. The Soviets are scared. They have been to the brink of hell and want to walk away...
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Novelist Andre Brink (Knowledge of the Night), some of whose work has been banned in South Africa, agrees: "If faced with the ultimate choice between sharing and going under, the Masada complex need not prevail. There is still a chance -- small and diminishing rapidly -- of entering into the kind of dialectic with the present which may open up the future." Frederik van Zyl Slabbert was leader of the official opposition, the Progressive Federal Party, until he resigned in disgust last year, so his criticisms are hardly new. But he is also a former professor of sociology and thus well tuned...
...nodded in agreement, but added, "I guess this leadership thing just gets to me sometimes. The world is perched on the brink of oblivion, commodity prices are down and the Russian sitcom program still hasn't taken off after 20 years...