Word: east
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pomp and circumstance was the order of the day at Addis Ababa's Bole International Airport as Ethiopia's Marxist President, Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam, gave a group of progovernment dignitaries a pep talk and then flew off for a four-day state visit to East Germany. But within a few hours of his departure early last week, a group of senior army officers were in revolt against Mengistu's rigidly Marxist twelve-year-old regime...
...Unfinished Revolution, just published by Warner Books. In fact, so many of Burton's colleagues have written books lately that bookstores might consider adding a TIME Authors section. Staff writer Guy Garcia's first novel, Skin Deep (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), tells the story of a Chicano who left the East Los Angeles barrio for Harvard. Contributor Richard Schickel's Schickel on Film (Morrow) is a collection of essays on subjects as diverse as Woody Allen and John Ford. Associate editor John Langone's Superconductivity: The New Alchemy (Contemporary Books) describes a new class of superconducting ceramics...
...reconciliation between the two Communist giants may offer more trouble than Washington has acknowledged. That once pre-eminent danger -- monolithic Communism -- may be gone, but that does not preclude new and improved threats. Detente in the East will allow Moscow to cut some of its 45 divisions stationed along the Chinese border. That's good, but not if it relieves pressure on the Kremlin to reduce troops in Eastern Europe. For Cambodia, the relaxation has accelerated the pullback of Soviet-supported Vietnamese soldiers. That's good, but not if it eases the return to influence of the Chinese-backed Khmer...
...bewilderment of ethnic explosion and implosion simultaneously. The Ayatullah Khomeini's response to Rushdie is (whatever else it is) an exquisite vindication of Rushdie's point. Khomeini's Iranian revolution was exactly a violent repudiation of the new world that the Shah had sponsored. The struggle throughout the Middle East now is, among other things, a collision between Islam and the temptations and intrusions of the West. In the new world, everything disintegrates: family, community, tradition, coherence itself. The old community perishes in deference to a new community not yet born...
...deepest change may be a planetary intuition that military war is pointless. Except in atavistic places like the Middle East and Ireland, conquering territory is a fruitless and counterproductive exercise. Why conquer land? The Soviets have more trouble than they can manage with their nationalities. The new world's battlegrounds are markets and ideas. The Japanese and Germans, having learned their military lessons the hard way, re- entered the war by other means...