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Just before midnight, short bursts of gunfire did echo from nearby streets. It was not, however, the start of an assault but a confused scuffle between tanks and protesters around a trolleybus barricade. Three demonstrators were left dead -- the only casualties in Moscow of the coup...
...these barriers have fallen one by one. The armed services were integrated by Harry Truman in 1948. Two weeks ago, the Senate voted to allow female pilots to fly in battle, though women soldiers are barred from serving in infantry combat units. But the discriminatory language and attitudes still echo when it comes to gays and lesbians. According to the Department of Defense, "homosexuality is incompatible with military service. The presence in the military environment of persons who engage in homosexual conduct or who, by their statements, demonstrate a propensity to engage in homosexual conduct, seriously impairs the accomplishment...
Some version of this theme is sure to figure in the Democrats' presidential campaign next year. It's a safe bet their candidate won't echo John F. Kennedy's exhortation to "pay any price, bear any burden." Instead, Thomas Jefferson's warning against entangling alliances is back in fashion. Reston endorses John Quincy Adams' injunction to go "not abroad in search of monsters to destroy," while Hyland offers his own version: "The enemy is not at the gate, but it may already be inside...
...present the Japanese subsidy of the U.S. economy creates no incentive at all for sensible reform. Quite the opposite: it permits America to luxuriate in its decadent ways and put off the necessary changes. Here, too, there is an echo of the debate over aid to the Soviet Union. Aid supporters say Western money is necessary to grease the wheels of change and ease the pain of transition. Skeptics argue that any financial support from the West would have the effect of shoring up the crumbling old system rather than helping build a new one. Pouring money into an unreformed...