Word: conundrum
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...America. Santoli has an understandable fascination with battle descriptions, but they are not enough. We need to know what the war did to these men's ideas about their country, for the damage it did to the American dream may be its most enduring legacy. This is the remaining conundrum that the politicians or the historians cannot answer. Everything We Had touches the edges of this question but does not confront it head on. Had it done so, it would have been infinitely more valuable than it is now. Everything We Had tells us much that is worth knowing about...
That blunt question from a Nashville high school student to the President of the U.S. last week aptly summed up the conundrum of Jimmy Carter's floundering campaign. From the outset, the President and his advisers had meant to make Ronald Reagan the man the issue in the race. Instead, with only three weeks to go, it was Carter who was the issue, and he had only himself to blame. Time and again, Carter's strident personal attacks had crossed the line of propriety for a presidential campaign. When he did it again last week, charging that Reagan...
...British response has been to tighten security and try again for a political solution to the Ulster conundrum. Margaret Thatcher's Tory government has installed a trio of new commanders in Northern Ireland, headed by Britain's famed spy master, Sir Maurice Oldfield, as supreme "security coordinator" for the area. There is a new level of cooperation between Dublin and London on security measures, notably in a secret agreement that allows helicopters of each side to overfly borders for up to ten miles in pursuit of terrorists...
...warmth inspired by the Pope's presence poses a conundrum about the man and his views. Although Mexico is largely anticlerical and Poland is Communist, the vast majority of their citizens are Catholics who have been reared from infancy to respect the papacy. But the U.S. is a pluralist, secular, sexually permissive society, and in the past two decades Americans have come to view with suspicion all institutions and authority, social, political or religious...
...Neff, as to most Middle Eastern observers, "Menachem Begin's victory was more than an upset. It was a conundrum. What did it mean-for peace, for America, for Israel, for the Palestinians?" Our cover story this week, written by Associate Editor Spencer Davidson, assesses those questions. Along with it is the interview that Neff and Halevy had with Menachem Begin after his party's victory. Neff thought the security man guarding Begin's apartment looked familiar, and, says Neff, "he was. It was the same guard we had encountered a few days before at the office...