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...afternoon in Los Angeles. At station KLCS-TV, Channel 58, the show is ready to roll. A phone rings and the man before the camera picks it up. "Welcome to Homework Hotline," he says. "I'm Ira Moskow ... I have John from Hughes Junior High on the line." When John, whose last name is Kellenberger, explains that he is having trouble converting 397 millimeters to meters, Moskow holds up a metric chart and asks, "Can you find meters on the chart, John?" Silence. "John?" "Yes." Gradually Moskow leads John out of his quandary, never providing the solution directly...
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...less naive and, thankfully, more common. Ironically, to my mind, at least, it is responsible for more deaths. It realizes that no sane individual in the North or South of Ireland believes that it is in Ireland's interest to prostitute herself to the men of the provisional IRA, whose Marxist ideology and links with international terrorism are well known. But nevertheless, it subscribes to the view, especially just after a terrorist attack, that Something Must Be Done. This usually means tinkering about with the constitution, erecting new "forums," adding an "Irish dimension," or initiating what James Prior called "rolling...
...first is the real killer, and at times like these, it tends to keep itself to itself. It runs something like this: "Well, until the British leave Northern Ireland, and set Ireland free, there will always be violence. Just because the IRA's means are wrong, that does not mean that their grievance isn't just or noble...
...evidence at least suggests that it can; indeed, that it has. What terrorism thrives on is doubt; what violence lives off is drift at the center of government. As long as there is doubt about the real future of Ireland, the IRA will have a direct incentive for influencing every move in this fluid process in its favor. Every new proposal is greeted by a new attack, every initiative with an atrocity, every new Minister of State with a publicity coup. The most violence-free periods have been when it was quite clear that no constitutional flux was intended...