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...They know that we have enough to kill and be killed a hundred times over again. Their historic experience in this century?unlike America's until Viet Nam?has not been the triumphant use of power but the experience of brute and futile power, blindly spent and blindly worshiped." Even in France, where pacifist sentiment is far less widespread than in other European countries, 63% of those polled consider a war in Europe "imaginable," and 30% thought it could occur in the next five years. hese fears have emerged at a particularly crucial moment. For the first time in NATO...
...realize one simple thing. What happened in Poland is--so far--successful. And it is successful only because it demolished two foundations of a totalitarian state: fear (which ruins the structure of society) and lie (which ruins the hierarchy of values). There is another, equally important, foundation: brute force. But brute force can be efficient only when used together with fear and lie. When neither of them exists anymore; when violence can not be met by fear and justified by lie; even brute force is not able to suppress people's striving for freedom and justice...
...unexpected guest comes wielding a revolver. Gunner (Anthony Heald) proves to be Tarleton's illegitimate son, bent on revenge. This gives Shaw a chance to play the dialectical game of cat-and-mouse. Inevitably, Hypatia gets the aviator to chase her till she catches him. "Papa, buy the brute for me," she purrs to Tarleton. Papa does...
...this time determined resistance from miners, urban workers, and campesinos was no match for brute military force. Three weeks after the coup the military had forced workers back to their jobs, cleared road blockades and restored the flow of produce to the cities. Under direct supervision from the Argentinian military, the Bolivian repressive apparatus became more thorough and astute. In the cities, specially trained para-military forces made surprise raids during the night, systematically terrorizing anyone thought capable of providing leadership to the resistance. Repression in the mines was less selective because opposition there had been more widespread and militant...
...Soviets) and the current mission to Africa by a still unconfirmed Assistant Secretary of State (see WORLD) suggest an effort to assuage these feelings. To be sure, the U.S.S.R. regards Third World countries strictly as pawns. But then the U.S.S.R. tries to influence other countries almost exclusively by brute force and revolutionary ideology (which implies the threat of force), while the U.S. depends on the more subtle instruments of diplomacy, politics, trade and foreign...