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...clear constitutional standing and with allegiance from few outside the military's high command, the council is trying to impose its authority on a restless nation that could erupt any day in civil strife. Short of martial law, it is unlikely the council will be able to provide the glue for an electorate fractured along political, religious and ethnic lines. The Islamic Salvation Front (F.I.S.) shows no inclination to cooperate with the authorities who stole the party's electoral victory. Last week the fundamentalists and leaders of the two other main political parties set aside their differences...
...then people were stripping glue off walls for protein. Tons of rotting sheep guts were boiled down into a rancid jelly and handed out as the meat ration. It was not uncommon to see people collapse from hunger while walking home through the snow, dying on the street. Some would remain covered beneath the snow until the spring. A factory chief remembers a worker asking him a final favor. "I know that today or tomorrow I will die," he said. "My family are in a very poor way -- very weak . . . Will you be a friend and have a coffin made...
America is not homogeneous. We have no ethnic or religious bonds to unite us. We are proud of having built a working nation out of so many disparate parts, and proud of the tolerance that has made that possible. But was ever increasing prosperity the crucial glue? It's easy to welcome newcomers to the party when the banquet table is overflowing. It's easy to settle disagreements by splitting the difference if there's plenty to go around. In bad times hospitality shrivels and disagreements fester...
...movement for medicinal marijuana has been around since the '60s, but its supporters have usually been those who also supported legalized marijuana, and legalized LSD and legalized glue sniffing. In the 1970s and earlier '80s, medicinal marijuana gained support from many doctors, but it was too late--the movement was inextricably associated with a lunatic fringe of burnt-out hippies making their last pathetic effort to salvage the '60s. In the Reagan-Bush years, that kind of coalition just doesn't float...
...campaign to defeat the measure. An Administration spokeswoman, employing one of the gun lobby's favorite bromides, said the President opposed the law because it is impossible to "legislate behavior." If that were really so, there would be no need for most of the laws that have provided the glue for civilization over the past 4,000 years...