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What makes terrorism respectable? The main criterion is success. Algeria's Foreign Minister Abdelaziz Bouteflika is currently president of the U.N. General Assembly partly because terrorism got its way in Algeria. If the French had been able to crush the F.L.N., he would probably be either dead or in prison. None of this should be cited in defense, let alone in praise of terror-only in deference to a terrible reality...
...significance I wished for it in my dolor. But my disinterested effort to view a baseball game as historic certainly avoids the consternation that a partisan fan must confront when his team loses, and it may also be the more honorable attitude for the spectator to maintain in the crush of the pennant race. No justification beyond some stretched definition of civic pride exists for the vehement strain of chauvinism that some people, and I am one, hold for a baseball team. There is something contemptuous about the person who pins his felicity on the fortune of nine...
...Observes Yale Philosophy Professor Michael Williams, 27: "There's not much goofing off these days." At Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., close to a third of the 690 freshmen told school officials that they hope to be medical doctors. Shoving matches broke out among some students in the crush to register for pre-med courses. In one dormitory at the University of Kansas, some 250 students expressed interest in a remedial clinic that aims to raise their grades by improving then-reading and study skills; last year only six students wanted to take the optional course...
...sellout because of Watergate seemed excessive and simplistic. Defense Secretary James Schlesinger tried to counter such alarmism by noting loyally that "the President would do nothing intentionally that would damage the national security. The President is a visceral, instinctive patriot." Besides, anything that even looked like a sellout would crush his chances for political survival. The conservatives, most of them Southerners who are expected to provide his major support in a Senate trial if the House votes to impeach him, are also the ones who are most skeptical of Soviet motives and who will most carefully examine his packages from...
Soviet army leaders have also been quick to crush the nascent hope that a reduction in military spending would result in more consumer goods for the people. On the contrary, asserted Soviet Chief of Staff Victor Kulikov recently, "the process of preparation for a new war, of accumulating and perfecting weapons continues and has even intensified in capitalist countries." As a result, he said, "the Soviet armed forces are maintaining their defense capabilities at the necessary level...