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THIS WINDY, CINEMATIC SPY NOVEL RElies shamelessly on quick cuts and spectacular scenery, and never mind logic. Anthony Hyde's CHINA LAKE (Knopf; $22) takes its title from a secret Naval Intelligence station in the Mojave Desert, where a 25-year-old mystery -- Who gave the heat-seeking Sidewinder missile to the Soviets? -- has never been resolved. Hyde leads us lengthily through the murk of old lies, from California to a wave-swept cliffside in Scotland to another cliff in Wales to East Germany and back to the black depths of a lost gold mine in the Mojave. Quick, light...
...except in times of great national crises or foreign challenges. "I think we know that small interventions won't work," says Brookings economist Henry Aaron, "and therefore we have to decide whether this is a problem like going to the moon or winning World War II or Operation Desert Storm, where we say we're going to pour in the resources we think are necessary to do the job." In Aaron's pessimistic view, there is currently "no evidence of that kind of commitment in the nation...
Olive Talley, reporter for the Dallas Morning News; Terry Tang, columnist for the Seattle Times; Andrew Tolan, executive producer with Desert West Research and Information; and Matthew Zencey, assistant editorial page editor of the Anchorage Daily News were also among those selected...
...what he calls a "Global Marshall Plan." He has digested books, made friends with experts and traveled. Gore went, for example, to the Aral Sea in Central Asia -- 10 years ago the fourth largest inland sea in the world, now dead, its fishing fleets stranded surreally in dry desert. The water that once fed the Aral was diverted in an ill-considered irrigation project to grow cotton. Gore traveled to the vanishing Amazon rain forest and to the globe's other environmental Stations of the Cross. He knows too much, however, to indulge in mere sentimentalism about Earth-Motherhood...
...Gore-esque imagery) remains as dark as a mine shaft, humankind has at least begun to notice the alarming accumulation of dead canaries about its feet. In part because of his son's accident -- and perhaps in part because of George Bush's overwhelming popularity in the polls after Desert Storm -- Al Gore decided to sit out the 1992 campaign. Instead of Gore for President, the public has his book, which is itself an act of leadership...