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...could say that it is foolish, that we are misreading our interests, that in the long run a freed Soviet empire is more important to America than a small Arabian principality. Perhaps, but the critics' charge is not geopolitical. It is moral. Americans, they maintain, cannot in good conscience uphold freedom in one place and tolerate repression in another...
...that has changed. Crimes nationwide rose 32% in 1989 and an additional 13% last year; the sharpest jump was in grave crimes like murder, aggravated assault and rape, which increased 44% in January. Freed by glasnost to report such unpleasant facts, Soviet television and newspapers have turned graphic tales of violence into standard fare. The result has been to fuel public fears that chaos is impending. "Before, people didn't know how much crime we had in this country," says Lieut. General Anatoly Alekseyev, head of the Interior Ministry's police college in Moscow. "The revelation that we have crime...
Other analysts say that an overall reduction of international tensions in recent years has freed up American military resources. The need for a huge military, even in the time of war, is therefore greatly reduced...
...ends as, the court-ordered busing of students to end patterns of racial discrimination. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that there were at least some limits beyond which busing need not go. By a 5- to-3 vote, the Justices decided that school systems could be freed from judicially mandated plans if they have "complied in good faith" with the desegregation order and eliminated the "vestiges of past discrimination . . . to the extent practicable." The ruling effectively put the delicate issue back in the hands of the lower federal courts that monitor some 500 affected school districts around...
...looking at another generation of Black people gone... I don't want my black men fighting over there for you...In a democracy, from the very beginning, we come over here and freed the Indians, and then we freed the black people, then we're going over there [the Persian Gulf] to free some more people of color. I say, fuck your freedom...