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"I have no need to cut a figure or gain a reputation as a fighter or a lover. I think killing animals is a desecration. In Hemingway's time Africa was a continent without political self-consciousness. Today men rise to power overnight and often fall just as quickly. There...
The missile installations at Berbera are only the tip of the Soviet iceberg on the hot horn of Africa. Over the past several years, the Russians have transformed Somalia's 17,000-man armed forces into some of the strongest on the continent. Of the 3,000 or so...
This was to be a Byproduct Nation, made much less by people hoping to glorify the land of their grandparents than by people working to provide a decent, prosperous life for their grandchildren. European nationalism hallowed the past; this new American nationalism hallowed the future. The very same features that...
When American settlers moved westward across the continent, they, like the early Atlantic seaboard settlers, went in secession. They went away from pre-empted lands and diminished opportunities, from towns that to them seemed already crowded, to a new America in the West. They went not to build a nation...
During the trip, Europeans were especially interested in the relationship between Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Because of the President's limited experience in foreign affairs, it was assumed that he would be almost totally dependent on Kissinger, who has frequently been criticized by Europeans for not...