Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Christmas the pair may be called He-Man and She-Ra, and their blond manes and mesomorphic torsos beckon from shelves in nearly every toy store in the nation. In other times the wandering children have been differently named and more modestly dressed. Observes Roger Sale, a professor of English at the University of Washington: "A girl is in a wood. Give her a brother, and one has Hansel and Gretel . . . send the girl to dwarfs, and one has Snow White. Make the girl a boy, and one might have Jack, either the one who climbs beanstalks...
THIS IS SOBERING stuff. Instead of SDI being the benificent shield Reagan paints it to be, it would simply elevate the arms race to a new level of terror. As late as November Reagan still claimed that SDI is, "strictly a non-nuclear defense." However, Robert English of the Committee for National Security has predicted that if research showed the use of SDI for offensive purposes, efforts would be directed toward that goal...
...English went on to say that the offensive capabilities might be feasible long before the defensive ones. Many problems encountered by a defensive system--such as the incredibly complex software, a perfectly synchronized network of lasers and the detection of incoming missiles--would not be a problem for a laser system programmed to attack...
...REAGAN AWARE of the offensive capabilities of SDI? If so, is he hiding his motives behind the smoke screen of a "peace shield," or is he simply naive about how future leaders might apply the technology? According to English, Reagan and his Administration are well-informed as to the attack capabilites of Star Wars...
Some 25,00 Afghan children have been sent to the Soviet Union for 'education' in the obvious Soviet hope of creating a future pro-Soviet elite. Afghanistan's history is being rewritten in order to suit the new regime. Russian has been substituted for English as the first foreign language in Afghan schools. The rudimentary education system which existed in the countryside, where 80 percent of the population lives, has been swept away. Many of Afganistan's ancestral monuments, for example the mosques in Herat (considered as international landmarks by UNESCO) have been seriously damaged by the fighting...