Word: dilemmas
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...corners of the world's last empire, demonstrators wave placards, some of them bearing Gorbachev's portrait; they hurl slogans, including some he made famous; they taunt troops, all of whom he commands from Moscow. Shouts lead to shots, and a riot becomes an enactment of Gorbachev's greatest dilemma: the relaxation of control can also mean disorder, which in turn can provoke repression, reversing reform and jeopardizing the political survival of the reformer. Last week it happened in Tbilisi. Next week, or next month, it could happen outside the borders of the U.S.S.R. but still within the empire...
MICHAEL Doonesbury has my sympathy. Gary Trudeau's cartoon leftist-turned-blow-dried-Yuppie is wrestling with the classic liberal dilemma...
...Crimson, like all other newspapers, is faced with the dilemma of running ads from the very firms it attacks in its staff editorials. If The Crimson wanted to entirely disengage itself from the problems in our society, we would quit running...
...moment, only a tiny minority have aired such views. But they illustrate an ancient dilemma that Gorbachev may soon confront: once people are allowed to voice long-forbidden thoughts, how do you get them to stop short of some line that the state considers safe...
...Gorbachev's reforms and initiatives--which include pulling out of Afghanistan, signing the INF, adopting hard-line budgeting, providing more and better consumer products and importing Coca-Cola, Billy Joel and openess--are themselves symptomatic of a dilemma which looms large in Kremlin minds. The Soviets are coming to grips with the fact that they cannot economically or politically afford to keep up the arms race and their policy of expansion at the expense of domestic priorities...