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Outdated Attitudes. Willy Brandt, who learned the difficulties of dealing with the Soviets as mayor of West Berlin, bridles at suggestions that he is giving away too much to the other side. In his opinion, he is simply relinquishing West Germany's claim to outmoded bargaining positions. "Our aim...
Many Americans now argue that the U.S. should not be asked to defend Western Europe when the Continent is capable of defending itself. In the long term, the argument is valid. But it fails to take into account the present sensitive, and perhaps promising, political situation in Europe. If the...
Violence is commonplace in much of Latin America, but few of the continent's countries can match Guatemala in that department. In 1968 Communist guerrillas in Guatemala City murdered two U.S. military advisers, then machine-gunned U.S. Ambassador John Gordon Mein to death in broad daylight. During the recent...
On the theory that a chair should be sold for its anatomical comfort, Hautefeuille devised a callipygous montage. He commissioned some 2,000 'photographs of bare buttocks, those of his employees, their children and friends. "We cropped the pictures right down to the buttocks itself," says the adman. "It...
Indeed, the whole enchanted continent, originally colonized by white men in pursuit of El Dorado and the Fountain of Youth, is encapsulated in Macondo. The only trace of the Protestant ethic in the town is the operation of the U.S banana company-and the "gringos" are plainly mean, greedy, and...