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...include, of course, intervention by the Soviets, but Moscow inevitably would pay a heavy price. An invasion would destroy any Soviet hope of strategic arms limitations talks with the Reagan Administration; it would ruin any immediate chances for a renewal of detente; it would probably bring on a new grain embargo at a time when the Soviets face a disastrous harvest; it would alienate Third World countries; it would almost certainly be resisted by Moscow's Polish "allies," an especially distasteful prospect when some 85,000 Soviet troops in Afghanistan are already tied down trying to subdue another "fraternal...
...every grain of sand...
...RECORD concludes with one of Dylan's finest efforts in recent memory. "Every Grain of Sand" puts fate on a pedestal, and, while not worshipping it, at the very least affirms its primacy in the governance of our lives. Some will take this as an excuse for the singer's recent course. Yet how can we not respect the passion and conviction with which this haunting ballad is delivered...
...particularly bitter battle in the war of words between Moscow and Washington centers on American charges that Soviet-backed forces in Southeast Asia have been using highly toxic biochemical weapons. Speaking in Berlin last week, Secretary Haig charged that "potent mycotoxins," superpoisons derived from grain molds and known to be produced by the Soviets, were found in the region. Experts at the State Department said that the toxins were isolated on a leaf from Cambodia, where the Soviet-backed government is fighting Khmer insurgents...
...national custom for Americans of every philosophical shade to berate the federal courts, from the highest down, over decisions that cut against the popular grain. Conservative calls for the impeachment of activist Chief Justice Earl Warren were commonplace. But to allow anger at the courts to grow into political action that would disable them could prove extremely perilous. What needs to be remembered is why the federal courts so frequently go against the grain of popular sentiment. More often than not they are doing what they, alone among U.S. institutions, were designed to do: safeguarding the fundamental rights...