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That was an artful dodge. The question pertained not to any current debate going on in Germany but to a dilemma that could arise years from now. By then the U.S.S.R. may have shrunk and changed its name, but it will doubtless still be a large country armed with far too many weapons of mass destruction for the comfort of its neighbors...
...speak or not to speak: it is a question at least as old as moody Danes delivering English couplets. And every year, as summer approaches, we face the same dilemma: whether to try, when in Rome, to speak as the Romans do or to rely on Italian cabbies speaking English (with brio, no doubt, and sprezzatura). In some respects, it comes down to a question of whether 'tis better to give or to receive linguistic torture. The treachery of the phrase book, as every neophyte soon discovers, is that you cannot begin to follow the answer to the question...
...sense, everyone is to blame for the current dilemma. Says Jolene Unsoeld, a Congresswoman from Washington State: "It is the accumulated actions of all of us -- those of us who admire a beautiful wood-paneled wall, environmentalists who want their grandchildren to know the ancient forests, and those of us who come from generations of hardworking, hard-living loggers. We are all at fault, because all of us wanted the days of abundance to go on forever, but we didn't plan, and we didn't manage for that...
...ironic that a retired doctor was promoting a homemade, low-tech device as a solution to the right-to-die dilemma. In recent years the agonizing debate over the issue has revolved around new technologies that can keep dying or comatose patients alive long after the quality of their lives is nil. Though most physicians will respect a patient's right to refuse treatment, they will not actively help bring about death. "This case seems to take the responsibility away from human beings and to put it in the hands of a machine," says George Annas, professor of health...
...this year, 41,578 Soviet Jews have arrived in Israel; by year's end, the total may reach 150,000. As acting Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir seeks Knesset approval of his new right-wing government this week, he faces the growing dilemma of how to house and employ the largest flood of immigrants to Israel since the early 1950s. Meanwhile, Moscow's decision to lift the gates on Jewish emigration has so infuriated Arab leaders that their outcry no doubt prompted President Mikhail Gorbachev to utter a veiled threat at his final press conference in Washington last week. If Israel...