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...spell." "Yes, we suffered much." "No, let us not talk about it." The responses are the same, whether the period involved is the civil war between the Communists and the Nationalists that embroiled the country in the '30s and '40s, or the epic struggle against Japanese invaders, or the chaotic Cultural Revolution. Notions of the past exist, but when tales are told they are often without context. Exotic ancestresses mince through the background on bound feet; pig-tailed great-grandfathers take to ship for lands of greater promise. What was it that they fled...
...have only marginal ability to influence what happens inside what must be called the former Soviet Union. Soviet citizens must decide their fate themselves, while the world holds its breath. The failed coup and the turmoil that has followed are fundamentally enormously hopeful events. If the immediate results are chaotic -- well, revolutions by their nature cannot be tidy. The trouble is that the most democratic revolutions can so easily degenerate into lasting chaos, out of which a new dictatorship can be born. Remember the February 1917 revolution that overthrew the Czar, the chaos that followed, and the November 1917 Bolshevik...
Tracy on the other hand has led a chaotic existence, wandering through 10 countries before settling in Lebanon in 1976 and doing everything from writing poetry to selling books. Tracy has not been to Vermont to see his mother Doris, now 83, in 26 years...
...stop but reverse the calamitous economic plunge that is the legacy of more than 70 years of communist mismanagement. And he would do it in only a year and a half. And while the main levers of economic power -- to the extent that there are any left in the chaotic production-and-distribution system -- are not in his hands but in those of Mikhail Gorbachev...
...solve all problems even if it happens. For example, the current draft calls for dual administration of defense plants, with organization, planning and design bureaus under central control and factory management within each republic's jurisdiction. That seems less a clear division of authority than a formula for chaotic conflict...