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...also become a symbol of the Administration's blind spots. Chief among them is failure to formulate a vision for America's future course in the wake of the cold war. The fundamental principle of American foreign policy since 1945 -- the containment of communism -- makes no sense today. The chief task now is to meet new challenges, like the tough economic competition from Europe and East Asia and the combustible nationalism of a host of small nations. In such a world, none of the past approaches to American policy -- from Woodrow Wilson's global do-goodism to Henry Kissinger...
Perhaps history will rate Baker as the right man for the end of the cold war, a deft and prudent player of the good cards dealt him by the collapse of communism. But in a fragmented and challenging new world, American foreign policy needs a conceptual overhaul, the kind of coherent vision that it got in a simpler past from such men as Dean Acheson and George Kennan. A seat-of-the- pants approach to international relations, even one with its share of ! short-term successes, will not preserve American leadership...
Until recently, demonstrations for the return of communism rarely attracted more than 100 people, but soaring inflation brought on by price liberalization has swelled the ranks of the disgruntled. Nevertheless, communism is so discredited that most observers dismiss the likelihood of a red revival...
Every bit as important as Russia's economic crisis is its identity crisis. Now, in the dead of winter, when this country is turning a cold shower on the grimy, corrosive residue of 73 years of communism, it is also being asked to shed virtually overnight its centuries-old identity as the metropole of a multinational empire. That is not easy, especially in the case of Ukraine, which has been dominated by Moscow for more than 300 years. Most Russians haven't accepted the idea of Ukraine as a separate country, not least because 20% of the population there...
...Black in Racist America--by Spartacus Youth Club. Emerson 305, 8 p.m. Communism must never die. Keep the faith...