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...addition to their aggressive policy of wanting to spread their doctrine throughout the world, there is a great fear on their part that they must be constantly on guard and defensive. This was characteristic of Russia before it was Communist, a suspicion of neighbors. Maybe it goes back to Napoleon's march on Moscow, maybe it goes back to other things of that kind...
...problems that he regards as essentially political. Said a French spokesman on the summit's first day: "We were impressed by the rigidity of the British representatives, while the other nine showed a sense of open-mindedness." Replied a British spokesman: "I'm sure that is what Napoleon thought before the Battle of Waterloo." Delving deeper into the history of hostility between the two nations, the French spokesman then countered, "Remember, France won the Hundred Years...
Offense: Wide receiver--Irving Fryar, Nebraska, tight end--Gordon Hudson, Brigham Young, linemen--Bill Fralic, Pitt; Stefan Humphries, Michigan, Terry Long, East Carolina, Dean Steinkuhler, Nebraska, center--Tony Slaton, Southern Cal, running backs--Bo Jackson. Auburn, Napoleon McCallum, Navy, Mike Rozier. Nebraska; quarterback--Steve, Young, Brigham Young...
...essay on Napoleon, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "He was no saint-to use his word, 'no capuchin,' and he is no hero, in the high sense." Napoleon had fulfilled an earthly career, at any rate. His life went the full trajectory. One could study the line of it and know, for better and worse, what the man was, and did, and could do. He inhabited his life. He completed it. He passed through it to the end of its possibilities...
...national sovereignty and self-determination, that distinguishes its conduct in the world from that of its Soviet adversary. Indeed, cries of outrage rang forth from Latin America, Western Europe and even the chambers of Congress-not to mention the predictable howl from Moscow, where TASS called Reagan "a modern Napoleon," devoid of conscience and simpleminded. By embroiling itself more deeply in the turbulent situation in Lebanon, the U.S. risks becoming a combatant rather than a peacemaker in the endless strife there. "Our forces in Lebanon are now not a deterrent, they are hostages," said Democratic Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia...