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...most strategic parts of the world. It's all a game, of course, and no one ever gets hurt; all that happens, it seems, is that the generals and their high-power friends manage to get some jollies by annihilating a few million computerized natives of the Horn of Africa, which is reportedly this year's favorite target. No one has fed in the wrong numbers...
...Soviet presence on the Horn of Africa, says former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, was not an "unselfish" response to an appeal from Ethiopia involving its quarrel with Somalia. Moscow's purpose was geopolitical: "To outflank the Middle East, to demonstrate that the U.S. cannot protect its friends, to raise doubts in Saudi Arabia right across the Red Sea, in Egypt, in the Sudan, in Iran. " Speaking in Manhattan last week to the International Radio and Television Society, Kissinger suggested that four basic principles should be kept in mind−perhaps by the Carter Administration−as the Russians...
...capacity to stand up to the still adventurous and aggressive Soviet Union. He has taken a series of actions they find dismaying: ordering a U.S. troop withdrawal (which he reduced somewhat last week) from South Korea, canceling the B-1 bomber, responding tepidly to Soviet intervention on the African horn, waffling on the neutron bomb and then deciding to postpone his decision. Moreover, he has asked Russia for nothing comparable in return for these unilateral actions. In West Germany, where his reputation is lowest, Carter is considered by some officials to be the worst President since World...
...know,' he said, 'I don't like notoriety. I try to avoid the limelight, and I don't blow my own horn or anything. I just do my part. In this case, I'm just glad I came through. Incidentally, the hit raised my season's average to .667 and gave me five runs batted in for the game...
Haydn, Chopin, Schumann and Ginastera--works for Horn and Piano at Cabot Hall, South House...