Word: fateful
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These questions, and others, are now raised and answered by an altogether fascinating reconstruction of "Entartete Kunst," which opened last week at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant- Garde in Nazi Germany" is the result of five years of patient detective work led by art historian Stephanie Barron, whose specialty is the art and cultural politics of Germany in the '20s and '30s. With the help of photographs that had lain unconsulted since the end of World War II in the archives of the National Gallery in Berlin, Barron was able...
...coincide with a period of severe domestic disarray. As the economy worsens, the republics are growing more restive, the forces of order more demanding and the left more fractious. In the face of such pressure, Gorbachev's efforts to govern look increasingly feeble. Moreover, he has linked his fate to those who retain power but who most resist real change: Communist Party apparatchiks, industrial managers, army generals, KGB colonels...
...Moscow apparently trying to save Saddam from exactly that fate? Though the U.S.S.R. never sent any troops to the Persian Gulf or made any financial contribution to the anti-Saddam alliance, its role in helping to buttress that alliance was crucial. Without Soviet assent, the U.N. Security Council could never have demanded that Iraq pull out of Kuwait, or organized the worldwide embargo against Iraq, or approved the use of force against Baghdad. Continued U.S.-Soviet cooperation is a cornerstone on which Bush hopes to build a new world order; conversely, nothing could destroy the alliance's hopes so totally...
...Iraqi withdrawal that Moscow had given him a chance to achieve by diplomacy. But Saddam's prospects were far bleaker. He launched the last-second diplomacy out of desperation that he was about to lose everything in the final allied offensive. Now he is about to suffer that fate anyway, sooner or later and at whatever cost in casualties on both sides. And by stalling and haggling until and beyond the final deadline, he brought it himself...
Jordan too will benefit. For months, gulf leaders coupled King Hussein with Saddam Hussein. "We didn't care if he met Saddam's fate, but reality intrudes," says a Kuwaiti official. "The Americans are right: no decent alternative exists. Middle East stability demands that we keep the King in power. We're prepared to help him. It sticks in all our throats -- we really hate him -- but what are you going...