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...Johns Hopkins University, sketched in Commentary in 1975 a hypothetical U.S. strategy for seizing the Arab oilfields. On the other side of the Persian Gulf, Iran's leaders are divided. President Abolhassan Banisadr's faction considers Carter preferable to Reagan, but Banisadr's clerical rivals contend that "both are tools of imperialism...
...BOOK, Michael Harrington had the gall to contend that Daniel Bell--among several other scholars--had misinterpreted Marx, and proposed to present the "authentic Marx." Bell, a man whose intellectual prowess does not outstrip his intellectual pride, did not respond kindly. In a 1977 review essay entitled, "The Once and Future Marx," Bell diligently and thoroughly devasted Harrington's version of the "real Marx," leaving readers gasping for breath and muttering, "please, please stop, our young liberal spirits want so badly to believe in something fresh and new and radical." But Bell will not stop. He further charges that Harrington...
...There is no foundation to the rumor that I am the only one here who was at the original Al Smith dinner." (This year's is the 35th annual affair.) By contrast, Carter turned preachy in a 14-minute oration that included an attack on Christian fundamentalists who contend that God does not hear the prayers of Jews. Some of his jokes fell flat. Said Carter: "I will say publicly and for the record that I am not planning any October surprise. I can predict, however, that one of us is in for a very severe November shock...
...have spent $150 billion more than the U.S. on their military forces; they have achieved nuclear parity with the U.S. and considerable superiority in manpower and many conventional weapons. Even so, Brown has taken to the hustings to argue that the U.S. is not nearly as weak as many contend: "A comparison with Soviet readiness, using the same standards, indicates that we're not so badly off." The Soviets predominate in offensive weapons, he concedes, but the U.S. excels in defense. "The Soviets have many more tanks, but we have many more antitank weapons. Which is more important...
...such evangelicals are political conservatives, of course. In fact, a summer Gallup poll found evangelical voters choosing Jimmy Carter over Reagan 52% to 31%. But some analysts contend that is no true measure of the rightists' impact. For one thing, the Gallup poll included blacks, whom Falwell and his allies know they have little chance of influencing. Their efforts are directed not so much to converting Carter partisans as to politicizing the huge number of evangelicals-45% by Falwell's estimate-who usually do not vote at all. Falwell claims that in the past year ministers galvanized...