Word: defectives
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Many experts thought, if a red line existed, it ran along the 860-mile boundary of barbed wire, concrete and minefields between East and West Germany. Surely Gorbachev could not let the people of what used to be the German Democratic Republic defect en masse to the Federal Republic, taking their whole country with them. And even if he dared let something so unthinkable happen, he couldn't possibly accept the membership of a united Germany in NATO...
...Bellinger, the publisher, is the man who organized the 1985 blockade of the Mississippi River to free a Ukrainian sailor who had twice tried to defect to the U.S. by jumping ship. Alas, Bellinger's nautical skills far outstrip his editorial talents: Between the Lines is a disappointingly bland affair that lacks the right-wing vitriol of Accuracy in Media or the brass and savvy of the publications put out by the Media Research Center. A recent issue featured the entire text of a George Bush speech that the national media had unforgivably failed to reprint verbatim...
...carpet salesman named Darryl, who represents everything stupid and stupefying about traditional masculinity, keeping Thelma in a state of near childish dependency. Her best pal, Louise (Susan Sarandon), lives with an oft traveling musician named Jimmy, who is nice enough but suffers from the other great modern male defect -- a maddening inability to make permanent commitments. Both women feel more than entitled to shed their mates for a long weekend at a friend's vacation retreat...
...kill 100,000 people and to feel no pain at having done so may be dangerous to those who did the killing. It hints at an impaired humanity, a defect like a gate through which other deaths may enter, deaths no one had counted on. The unquiet dead have many ways of haunting -- particularly in the Middle East, which has been accumulating the grievances of the dead for thousands of years...
...regard holding on to Kuwait as a cause worth dying for. They were starved, thirsty, often sick -- medical care was atrocious to nonexistent -- and some had been terrorized by their own commanders, who employed roving execution squads to shoot or hang troopers who had attempted to desert or defect. That barbaric method of keeping discipline backfired: soldiers gave themselves up as soon as the guns pointing at them were American, British or Arab...