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...surrealism of combat. Sometimes he succumbs to stagy symbolism, such as a scene of a literal burying of a hatchet. But when one character defines death as "like being inside a book that nobody's reading," O'Brien's notion of story-truth goes off like a successful trip-flare, and we suddenly see why he had to become a writer...
...misfortune is being played out on two fronts: the flare-ups of ethnic $ hatred within the republics and the growing opposition of the republics themselves to Moscow. These calamities have been as unexpected to us as the disintegration of the world colonial system was to many Marxists. We had rejoiced at the crumbling of that system. At the same time, we believed our empire was protected from such troubles; after all, didn't we enjoy an immunity of sorts in our "eternal brotherhood of peoples...
...standard defense against a heat-seeking missile is to divert it with another heat source, typically a flare that emits a broad range of infrared radiation. The missile, drawn by the heat of the flare, follows it and not the plane. But modern SAMs are equipped with filters that can cancel out radiation from a simple flare. Air Force One is believed to carry flares that burn brighter and longer in the infrared frequencies that the SAMs' sensors follow...
...bitter hostility between Slavs and ethnic Turks is deeply ingrained and ready to flare up at the slightest provocation. A few dozen anti-Turk demonstrators gathered again yesterday around the National Assembly, or parliament, in Sofia...
...April a peaceful demonstration by Georgian separatists in Tbilisi turned into a horror when army and Interior Ministry troops attacked the unarmed protesters with shovels, clubs and poison gas, killing 20. There have been similar nationalist flare-ups in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Tadzhikistan...