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...upon a policy of détente with the West. He did not want to wage cold wars-with the ever-present threat of hot ones-on two fronts. One reason why détente has all but failed is that the Soviets believe the Carter Administration is rushing headlong into an alliance with China. That raises the old specter of encirclement...
...Americans have been steadily relinquishing their inhibitions about the social consequences of their actions. They have lost a crucial sense of community, even while highways, jets, satellite TV signals and leisure travel have brought them physically closer together. The social environment has grown polluted along with the natural; a headlong greed and self-absorption have sponsored both contaminations. Somehow, Americans have also misplaced the moral confidence with which to condemn sleaziness and stupidity. It is as if something in the American judgment snapped, and has remained so long unrepaired that no one notices any more...
...obvious question which sustains you through this very heavily crafted and self-conscious opening (every angle feels weighty) is, who is this couple and why are they here? Unfortunately, this question is never answered because the two are about to be flung headlong into a terrible adventure from which they will never return...
...Wayne Hays. One of the more bizarre spin-offs of Watergate was its literary industry; almost everyone, good guys and bad guys alike, the Deans, Haldemans, Jaworskis, Ehrlichmans, Colsons and so on, sat down at tape recorder and typewriter and produced books to cash in on the scandal. A headlong rush to excess profits was joined in the '70s by oil companies, sports stars negotiating multimillion-dollar contracts and writers whose most meretricious junk could command seven-figure advances...
...their final sock-it-to-'em meeting of the decade, there will be some important and worrisome differences from past gatherings. OPEC will be fixing prices against a backdrop of almost unprecedented global upset brought on in large part by its own actions. More than that, in its headlong rush for profits, the 13-nation cartel has been rapidly losing even the appearance of self-control over pricing and production...