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MUSSOLINI by Denis Mack Smith; Knopf; 429pages...
...archetypal thug. But the founder of Fascism was a complex thug who could never make up his mind whether he wanted to be a fearsome breaker of the peace, like his neighbor to the north, or a geopolitical showman, the P.T. Barnum of international politics. Judging from Denis Mack Smith's study, by far the more solid and persuasive of these two new biographies, the Duce (chief) was a bit of both...
...House has not yet passed a version of the bill. The final day of Senate debate provided an occasion for yet another political struggle. The Pentagon had requested $800 million to buy 50 Lockheed C-5 Galaxy transport planes, a purchase heartily supported by Senators Sam Nunn and Mack Mattingly of Georgia, where they are made. But Senators Henry Jackson and Slade Gorton of Washington successfully led an effort to replace the C-5 funds with $520 million for 50 converted Boeing 747 planes, which are manufactured in their state...
...There's a growing effort by physicians from all over the world to try to increase the public's awareness that nuclear war isn't really war, but rather suicide," said Dr. John Mack, a professor of psychiatry at the Medical School who attended the conference
...circle must be broken if we are to remove the "thinkables" from power and make "rational alternatives" possible. The challenges is to unlearn helplessness and to channel fears of nuclear destruction not into apathy but into action. In Dr. Mack's words, "We must move away from the win/lose, mentality...to the mental and emotional context of win/win, lose/lose, of we and they, that the development of nuclear weapons requires." This struggle is far from easy, and it ultimately must be waged within the mind of each individual. But one need not struggle completely alone--groups such as The Council...