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...nation energetically repressed the whole experience of Viet Nam for much of the '70s. All the logic of the Me Generation was actually headlong flight from the lethal surprises found in obscure Cochin China. Journalist Gloria Emerson, who wrote with brilliant indignation about the war, pronounced bitterly a few years ago: "We are a people who drop the past, and then forget where it has been put." But the war in Viet Nam cannot be discarded with impetuous American blitheness. The civic and psychic mechanics don't work that way. The men (and as many as 7,500 women...
Despite all this lethal ingenuity, the only really good news from the bug battlefront is that most healthy trees can survive two or three onslaughts. Indeed, foresters like to point out that the moths often strengthen the woodland by eliminating sickly specimens. But such Darwinian reassurances are little comfort to suburbanites worried about a favorite elm or oak. By now, about all they can do is keep the tree as healthy as possible -faithful watering and feeding help -gather up and destroy every clutch of moth eggs in sight, and wait until next year. -By Frederic Golden. Reported by Anne...
...Communist Party. "We are happy to have shared in this great victory for the Left," he said. Around him, snickers were easily audible. The Communists had, in fact, lost almost half their representatives to Parliament [from 86 to 44], suffering a setback that many feel will be lethal for their present leaders. As if in confirmation, Juquin had seemingly replaced Party chief and media star Georges Marchais as official spokesman. Among France's Communists, symbolism like this is never coincidence...
...many, the answer was clearly no. The ever cautious and gentlemanly Cyrus Vance, Jimmy Carter's Secretary of State, appeared on NBC's Meet the Press to brand the timing of Haig's announcement in Peking that the U.S. had agreed "in principle" to sell lethal weapons to China as "needlessly provocative" to the Soviet Union. "It smacks of bearbaiting rather than dealing seriously with the problems," Vance said. Later in the week, he charged that the arms proposals for China "virtually removed any influence we have left over the Soviet Union. We played the China card...
...particularly for a nation like Iraq, flush with petrodollars. At least 15 countries* are now offering nuclear technology on the international market. Their wares include not only a variety of reactors and fuels, along with the necessary technicians, but also reprocessing machinery that could be used for recovering the lethal ingredients for bombmaking from the spent reactor materials. A tidy set of such equipment that would be suitable for conversion to weapon construction would cost upwards of $250 million...