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...Lithuanians' reply: We are stronger than you because we have historical justice on our side. We are also strengthened by your own promises to govern democratically and to forswear the principle that might makes right. Therefore you cannot crush...
...breaks out in the Middle East as the Western powers attack an ambitious Arab dictator. The Soviet Union, threatened by revolution within its empire, takes advantage of the Middle East crisis to crush the rebellion. No, that was not just last week's news in the Persian Gulf and the Baltics; it was what happened during one tragic week late...
...Suez attack encourage or enable the Soviets to crush Hungary? In his memoirs, Khrushchev talks of defending Hungary from "counterrevolution," but he more candidly told an ally that he had to act, or the West "will say we are either stupid or soft." But would he actually have done it if the West had not been divided and distracted by the Suez events? Or to put it another way, what did Mikhail Gorbachev last week consider to be the lessons of 1956, and how do they apply to the Baltic states' demands for independence...
...course, if Dry has one of his typical 25-for-28, 456-yard efforts, Coach Filling may not have to resort to the Dryrooski to crush Budweiser's dreams of a three-peat...
...group would be hard-pressed to hold back the crush of tourism. During the peak summer months, 7,000 visitors a day transform Yosemite Valley into an urbanized village of noisy bumper-to-bumper traffic and bicycle jams. To many nature lovers, the land that pioneering preservationist John Muir extolled for its "spiritual glow" and "sublime mountain beauty" has already been irreversibly damaged...