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...euphoria on the picturesque island, roughly the acreage of Detroit, may fade as Grenada tries to rebuild its shattered political system and economy. It will not be easy to fashion a new government that islanders, badly split in political ideology, can trust, or to revive an economy hurt by falling crop and tourist income. In addition, the country still faces the task of repairing its rocky roads as well as its war-damaged power facilities and water systems...
Similarly, French President null Mitterrand had quickly and dryly criticized the U.S. action, but in private French officials were taking a more detached view. Said one: "If the Americans withdraw quickly and set up some truly democratic institutions, Grenada could fade mercifully into the political background within a month." Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi made it clear that the invasion of Grenada would not affect Italy's commitment to the NATO decision...
...ravages of nuclear war-but a punishingly high goal. It may be that no television film has ever had such ambition, or presumption, and just so no one misses the point, the network and the film makers spell it out in grave white letters just before the final fade: "It is hoped that the images of this film will inspire the nations of this earth, their people and leaders, to find the means to avert the fateful...
Korea was a sort of transitional conflict, a civil war enacted with all the panoply of conventional battle, each side supported with allies and joining on an open field of battle. But then war tended to fade into jungles and a thousand ambiguities of costume and faction and political subtlety. Viet Nam was America's painful education in this new form. Overarmed and under informed, the Americans came onto the battlefield and found that it was all quicksand and fog. Viet Nam was morally impenetrable as well. Americans could not tell enemies from friends. The war became a terrible...
...production of Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra horrifies while it captivates, an anomaly in a world of frothy fun and glitter. And like that sobering skull, the play, staged as it is in late July, reminds us that--both literally and figuratively--glorious summer will quickly fade to autumn and winter. O'Neill lets us know that even while comedy and music, sunshine and song still cast their spell, death and decay lurk inevitably in the shadows. They need simply wait...