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...March 1983 Ronald Reagan described the Soviet Union as "the focus of evil in the modern world." Harsh words, but no harsher than what Nitze said in 1950 in a report to Harry Truman called National Security Council Directive No. 68, one of the seminal documents of the cold war ("The Kremlin is inescapably militant"). Nitze supervised the preparation of NSC-68 as director of the State Department's policy planning staff. His desk was only a conference room away from that of his friend and boss, Secretary of State Dean Acheson. His office in Foggy Bottom today, its walls...
Geldof, who received an honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II for his Band Aid efforts, was back in Ethiopia last week, and his indictment of Mengistu's role in the new famine was harsh and to the point: "I would say that the cardinal responsibility of any government is to feed its own people, and any government refusing to do that is irresponsible...
Even when the rains come, they can be a cruel gift. Heavy downpours swept over parts of southern Africa two weeks ago, breaking a harsh drought. But they also destroyed some of the more delicate plants that had survived the dry spell, and the soggy ground will hamper distribution of maize meal recently shipped into the area...
...caviling on the part of his would-be heirs has peeved Reagan. In his interview with television anchormen, the President said that conservative disapproval of the INF agreement was "based on a lack of knowledge." Then he offered a surprisingly harsh assessment of his opponents' motives: "Those people, basically, down in their deepest thoughts, have accepted that war is inevitable...
...virtually guarantees a sellout. Parker insists that the controversial scores are less important than his precise descriptions of wines, which are sometimes brutally scathing. Of one California Cabernet Sauvignon he recently wrote, "This is a pathetic wine with a bouquet that reeks of cardboard, is inexcusably diluted, and has harsh flavors that offer no redeeming value." Rating...