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Yesterday Western Europe was united in order to confront a Soviet bloc, artificially brought together by the Red Army. Today Western Europe has to be united to face the vacuum left by the disappearance of the Soviet Union and the powerful forces of fragmentation that the collapse of the Soviet empire unleashed...
...page 58 of this issue is a story by correspondent Sylvester Monroe, telling of his return to the Chicago housing projects he grew up in and the public high school he attended a generation ago. In very personal terms, Sylvester documents the even harder struggles today's blacks confront as they attempt to climb out of poverty. As part of this extraordinary report, he will appear on The Issue Is Race, a PBS special produced in association with TIME that will air Oct. 2 on public television stations...
What Kissinger failed to confront in his testimony was the disjuncture between his explanation that he knew of no POWs still being held and his plaint that he had no bargaining powers to force the issue. Policy involves making trade-offs, and in 1973 a difficult one was made: the Nixon Administration decided that it was best not to scuttle the peace agreement or re-engage in the war despite the fact that some missing Americans had not yet been accounted for. Winston Lord, Kissinger's onetime aide, was the only witness last week willing to discuss this uncomfortable truth...
Bell said that among his motivations for leaving the Law School was a wish to show students that "commitment to change had to be combined with a readiness to confront authority...
...adult life in the public eye. Even for people who have only heard of his mischievous best seller Myra Breckinridge, his image from countless TV talk shows is indelible -- by turns suave, perverse, a man smarter than anyone else on the set. His waspish ripostes can be frightening to confront but endlessly quotable later -- like his line about Ronald Reagan: "A triumph of the embalmer's art." Handsome, saturnine, Vidal projects the threat that he is capable of derailing anything...