Word: disasterous
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If we get such a peace, then we might agree to send a similarly token NATO observer force, easily deployed and easily withdrawn. If the Bosnians want a few Americans with a flag and fatigues to lend symbolic legitimacy to the agreement, as in Sinai today--fine again. But no...
Once Upon a Distant War (Times Books; 546 pages; $27.50) concentrates on this early, internecine American sniping, which flared up obscurely in 1962-63 while much of the U.S. press concentrated its big guns on stories like civil rights, the space race and the Cuban missile crisis. William Prochnau, an...
Then what went wrong? Why did these reporters slowly lose their faith in a war they were eager to cover, even at the risk of their own lives? Prochnau blames Washington and Saigon for an unworkable strategy against the Viet Cong and for a refusal to listen to journalists who...
THE UTAH "WILDERNESS" BILL IS ONE of the best examples of the Republican leadership's efforts to give away, sell off or otherwise develop America's forests, parks and wilderness. The bill could spell disaster not only for the awe-inspiring red rock canyon lands of southern Utah but for...
"Women and Wallace" goes for the theatrical jugular immediately. Minutes into the play we are led into a warm domestic scene: Wallace's mother (Sarah Matthay) calmly prepares a peanut butter and banana sandwich for little Wallace. After he excitedly snatches the lunch and trots off to the second grade...