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That is precisely the kind of devastating war that Continental leaders have always sought to avoid with the protection of the U.S. nuclear umbrella. Seven successive U.S. Presidents, including Jimmy Carter, have emphatically guaranteed that protection. Yet the widely perceived weakness of the present American leadership and the decline of U.S. nuclear superiority have again raised the unsettling question in Europe: Would Washington ever risk Chicago or New York for London or Paris? European worries about America's lack of commitment are surely exaggerated. Nonetheless, many defense experts on the Continent were duly impressed by Henry Kissinger...
But Brazil's progressive bishops and clergy were delighted by the Pope's bridge-building gestures toward them. In Recife, John Paul warmly-and publicly-embraced Archbishop Hélder Cámara, 71, detested by the conservative military regime for his advocacy of peasant rights; Dom H...
Americans are now defensively aware of their history: they are in transit from a Ptolemaic to a Copernican view of themselves, and a scaling down of their range and ambitions in the world. The diminution, even the implicit insult of the process, is painful. It prompts some insistent revisions in...
Hundreds of feet below the thick Antarctic ice, fully submerged oil pumping stations sit on the floor of the Weddell Sea. Onshore, battered by bitter cold and shrieking winds, oilworkers control the steady stream of rich, black crude that flows from the underwater wells through pipelines and into coastal storage...
AFRICA AND ASIA. Chevron's discovery in the swamps of Sudan and new finds offshore of Nigeria and some other west coast countries have renewed interest in the African continent. Amoco recently sank a wildcat well in the Seychelles merely on the ground that Madagascar, about 700 miles away...