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...future is grim. The United States will sell more than $20 billion in weapons to countries in the Middle East this year. One should not be surprised if some end up in Saddam Hussein's hands. The Kissingerian logic which has guided Bush's policy prescribes "striving for an equilibrium between Iraq, Iran, Syria and other regional powers." With reports that Syria has already spent more than one billion coalition dollars on guns, the Iraqi side of the equation may need some shoring up. This Realpolitik would approach farce--if there were not dead bodies everywhere...
Bloody Sunday, Jan. 13, when Soviet soldiers killed unarmed civilians in Lithuania, is often cited as proof that Gorbachev has already thrown in with the ultraconservatives. Actually, in the aftermath of the massacre, he showed his determination to preserve an equilibrium between right and left, between centrifugal and centripetal forces. If the hard-liners had really had their way in Vilnius, the night of horror would have stretched into a week, a month, perhaps a new era. Vytautas Landsbergis would now be dead, in jail or, if he were extremely lucky, back to teaching music. Instead he remains President...
...department's inner turmoil resulted in a restructuring that stripped students of executive privileges in the hiring process. The department finally reached what many call an equilibrium in the late 1970s and early 1980s, with a number of appointments satisfying its concentrators...
...number of scholars, most of them female, are redressing the balance. Abandoning standard research techniques that emphasize impersonal inquiries, they engage women in long conversational dialogues exploring friendships, sexual desires, classroom experiences, racial identity, ideas of justice. What they are discovering is that women's psychological equilibrium depends on human connection. The terror for women is isolation. Psychiatrist Jean Baker Miller of Wellesley College's Stone Center for Developmental Services and Studies and the author of a seminal 1976 book, Toward a New Psychology of Women, says, "Women's sense of self and of worth is grounded in the ability...
...powerful economy. Even the French have been quietly but assiduously courting the British. Prior to unification day in Germany, a balance existed among West Germany, France and Britain, each with about the same populations, relative wealth and mix of political advantages and handicaps. A united Germany has upset that equilibrium...