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...solution he proposes is ill defined but highly unsettling nonetheless: the "well-managed proliferation" of nuclear weapons. Perhaps, he suggests, when some latter-day archduke is assassinated on a bridge in Sarajevo, there will be enough fingers on enough nuclear triggers to scare everyone into salutary paralysis. Among the states that should get the Bomb, he says, is a unified Germany. That prospect appeals to few Germans and virtually no one else. A Germany armed with nuclear weapons would, almost unavoidably, raise the atavistic specter of militarism that would be threatening to neighboring states...
...pledging obedience to God. Another key change occurs in a dramatic representation showing a polytheistic Elohim dispatching Jehovah and Michael to create the world. The scene in which Satan pays a Protestant preacher to lure Mormons from their faith is out, perhaps because it offended converts from Protestantism. (The Latter-Day Saints still hold theirs to be the only authentic form of Christianity...
...Call it latter-day Teflon if you will, but nothing seems to faze the Gipper on his unrepentant gallop into the Beverly Hills sunset. He answered about 150 questions in a Los Angeles court last Friday and Saturday, part of the leftover Iran-contra scandal that keeps snarling at his polished heels like a nasty attack dog. He had every right to repair to his bright Bel Air home, high above the smog, and have a little bit of the post-White House blues like Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Carter...
...party is to politics what Gosplan, the state central planning agency, is to the economy. For some time enterprising Georgians have been allowed to fly to Moscow in the dead of winter to sell their flowers at whatever prices they can get in the underground stations of the Metro. Latter-day kulaks sell in private stalls the vegetables they raise on private plots. Taxi drivers, restaurateurs and publishers are making money in microenclaves of capitalism called cooperatives. Even the state has got in on the act, auctioning off foreign currencies for rubles to the highest bidders. But in all these...
Through both McCrary and his own pluck, Safire in the 1950s kept popping up in improbable situations, especially for a latter-day Times columnist. Consider...