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Israel and South Africa are two different countries with two vastly different histories. A simplistic rhetorical linking of the two countries' policies of discrimination is generally fruitless and ill-advised. Nonetheless, in looking at specific similarities between Israel's proposed "Third Amendment" and South African "emergency legislation," we can see why analysts feel justified in raising the comparison...
TRYING to fully understand recent history is like trying to size up a building with your nose pressed to it. It's a fruitless task. And yet recently, quite a few influential people have being trying. Sniffing away at this month's "Panama debacle," they have arrived at premature judgments of American involvement, or lack thereof...
...Ocean Spray, based in Plymouth, Mass., believes the growers' fuss is fruitless. It says there will be no confusion between the two products, since labels will read CRAISIN DRIED CRANBERRIES. Craisins will be sold as a snack and as an ingredient in other foods. They can also be found next month in a new Ralston Purina breakfast cereal. But the real question is, Can they sing...
...deepest change may be a planetary intuition that military war is pointless. Except in atavistic places like the Middle East and Ireland, conquering territory is a fruitless and counterproductive exercise. Why conquer land? The Soviets have more trouble than they can manage with their nationalities. The new world's battlegrounds are markets and ideas. The Japanese and Germans, having learned their military lessons the hard way, re- entered the war by other means...
Suddenly, the beeps stopped coming. Soviet scientists last week lost track of one of their nation's most highly touted space projects: Phobos 2, an unmanned craft launched last July to dispatch two landing probes onto the Martian moon Phobos. Repeated attempts to re-establish contact were fruitless. A companion vessel had been lost in space last August. The two spacecraft were part of the longtime Soviet push to explore Mars, an effort that Moscow has several times invited the U.S. to join. Although Phobos 2 had managed to send back information on the Martian atmosphere, magnetic field and environment...