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...slow pace of the Madrid talks has provided a fairly accurate reflection of the frosty state of relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union over the past three years. The conference began in a chill, eleven months after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. As the deadline for beginning the meeting approached, the participants could not even agree on an agenda for their gathering. They arbitrarily stopped the conference clock at five minutes before midnight in order to continue thrashing out their differences...
Even those who shere the Council's views about the inappropriateness of such relationships have some concerns. Chief among them is the worry that the community will pay a high price in a diminution of faculty student contract and that the chill climate that will result will affect women particularly...
...everyday event for a woman to rise topless from a large cauldron in Memphis. But when Cheryllynn Ross did so last week as Hecate during the New York-based Metropolitan Opera touring performance of Macbeth, she was risking more than a chill: the city's tough new antinudity ordinance, aimed chiefly at topless dancers, could have brought quick arrest. Two division commanders of the local police were on the scene. Would they rush the cauldron and haul its contents off to the slammer...
...youthful Frenchmen were careering jubilantly through the streets of Paris, trailing red flags from their cars and chanting, "We've won! We've won!" Standing in the chill spring rain at the Place de la Bastille, others laughingly shouted, "Mitterrand, give us some sun!" Even as a joke, that demand was a measure of the Impossible hopes raised by French President François Mitterrand's election victory two years ago, a historic occasion that brought to an end 23 years of conservative rule...
Hanging over the dispute, as well as almost every other discussion of U.S. intervention abroad for the past decade, is the chill specter of Viet Nam. Out of fear of repeating that colossal misadventure, Americans have seized hold of its lessons, perhaps inaccurately, perhaps obsessively. There is a strong aversion to undertaking any commitment to shore up threatened pro-American regimes in the Third World, no matter how strategically important they are, and a reluctance to believe that the countries of a region could topple like dominoes, no matter how compelling the evidence of spreading subversion. This is particularly true...