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...Chinese social scientist states the dilemma pithily. Says he: "If the party does not continue the reforms, the economic situation will get worse. But if the reforms continue, the party itself will lose power" to newly rich peasants and newly independent factory managers. His conclusion is that the party will cut back on, if not reverse, the reforms rather than let that happen. But Zhao Fusan, a senior scholar at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, states flatly that "the process of economic reforms will naturally bring about a process of democratization, the setting up of checks and balances...
Former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger predicts that even if Reagan decided to go for a trade-off, he would have difficulty with his conservative constituency: "The President's big dilemma is that after the 1984 election, he legitimized SDI as a symbol of the true faith. He has jettisoned five years of rhetoric about the Evil Empire; he has restored a climate of détente. But the right wing still regarded the summit as a triumph. Why? Because he didn't give away SDI. That means if he moves to trade it away in the next year...
Among his other talents, Niebuhr had a gift for aphoristic paradox. He addressed the dilemma of the new nuclear age by decreeing atomic weapons to be "our ultimate insecurity and our immediate security." One of his best-known lines appeared in The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness (1944): "Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary...
...litany of the hostages, some of whom have been missing in Lebanon for more than a year, is an all-too-familiar evocation of President Carter's Iranian hostage dilemma of six years ago. And Western Europe's uncertainty and helpless fear of terrorism today resembles that of the Carter Administration...
Wexler is not alone in her dilemma. More than 100,000 Americans with a family history of Huntington's live with the knowledge that they may have inherited the defective gene. Like Wexler, many have decided not to have children, and are likely to be ambivalent about taking the test once it is no longer experimental. Recognizing how devastating a positive test result could be, Johns Hopkins, Columbia University and Massachusetts General Hospital are conducting a three-year study to determine the emotional impact of early diagnosis. "We're trying to find out what type of psychological care these people...