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...best of times or, depending on your political and philosophical outlook, one of the foulest and most depraved. Rebellion seemed to be leaping from city to city, continent to continent, by some fiery process of contagion. Vietnam unleashed the Tet offensive; France shook with the revolutionary "events of May"; radical students filled the streets of Mexico City, Berlin, Tokyo, Beijing, Prague. In the U.S., Chicago swirled into near anarchy as cops battled antiwar demonstrators gathered at the Democratic Convention. And everywhere from Amsterdam to Haight-Ashbury, a generation was getting high, making love, acting...
...that was emphatically not what Bush had in mind. He has identified "instability" as the greatest threat to world peace in the post-cold war era. He sees the global contagion of secessionism as profoundly destabilizing. In three cases that came to a head last year -- Iraq, Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union -- Bush instinctively sided with the central governments, no matter how unpopular and repressive, against separatists...
Because of the contagion, Harvard Coach Kathy Delaney Smith was compelled to cancel practice...
...grow to 4 1/2 million by 1993. But several Asian governments have launched campaigns to prevent STAR from introducing foreign programming and ideas to people long insulated by state- run TV. The government of Malaysia has announced a ban on private dishes, to protect its large Muslim population from contagion by "undesirable values." A committee appointed by the government of India argued early this year that satellite TV exposes people to "foreign perceptions and alien values." Still, STAR has already overtaken CNN as India's foreign-programming source of choice...
...instance of Iraq, because of oil and Israel. But there are more general reasons. Some years ago, a French novel imagined desperate hordes of the Third World poor advancing on the West. One need not take that prophecy literally to worry about terrorism and other forms of contagion from regional conflicts and from "the wretched of the earth." We should be able to reduce our military commitments in the Third World, but we cannot escape them altogether. It is in our interest to help construct some degree of world order, especially as several Third World countries have nuclear weapons capability...