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Although the report contains no startling disclosures, in its breadth of detail it is convincing-and even frightening. There are illustrations-drawn in rather crude Flash Gordon style from satellite photos-of the new 25,000-ton Typhoon missile submarine, an SS-20 launch site, the experimental T-80 tank and surface-to-air laser weapons. Maps target where Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles and intermediate-range SS-20s have been placed, chart the location of Soviet divisions, and illustrate the sweep of Soviet adventurism around the globe, complete with lists of technicians and advisers stationed abroad. To bolster its point...
...grandparents, a French-Canadian fur trader and a Blackfoot Indian woman. But seeking his heritage only makes the son realize how much of it has been lost. Seeing unknown relatives at his father's wake, Daniel muses: "For me, they brought with them a crude air as of a settlement in the woods of people of strange blood, a settlement which was not really a success." Reconstructing a gathering his family had held some 20 years earlier, he recalls a tableau: his father depressed, his mother on the verge of hysteria. Even the Francoeurs' idea of Catholicism cannot...
...land, and the people who hang on in it, display a rough simplicity, an unabashed naturalness that would have been the envy of D.H. Lawrence. The branding and gelding of cattle, the butchering of pigs, the birthing of calves are presented honestly: no delicate operations, these; rather, a rough, crude, often grisly patchwork of bawls and grants and squeals, scorched flesh and bristly hides and blood...
...sickeningly familiar, from the macho posturing to the crude, scatological stammering. But this time the conversation between President Richard Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman, so drearily reminiscent of those played during the Watergate conspiracy trial of 1974, was from a newly disclosed tape. The recording, of a five-minute conversation between Nixon and Haldeman, was made on the White House taping system in May 1971. The subject: a plan to bring in what Haldeman called Teamster "thugs" to intimidate demonstrators then descending by the thousands on Washington to protest the Viet Nam War. The transcript...
...having said all this, most of these same Americans would never reach for the crude solution offered by TIME, that is, holding back economic aid appropriated for Israel in an escrow account, to be paid out only if "genuine progress" is made in the autonomy talks, and withheld as a penalty if Israel sanctions new settlements on the West Bank. This Administration has a multitude of means available to it, short of such blackmail, to make known its views to Israel. No Israeli government ever has been, or conceivably ever could be, blind to the views of an American President...