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...imperialist. Cold War brutality. Our allies would openly condemn the act, as would the rest of the world. The Russians would most probably take the opportunity to encourage Third World nations to avoid such barbarie capitalists and turn to the inherently peace-loving security of communism. Needless to say, the respect the world's citizens hold for us would inevitably--and deservedly--trade drastically...
...downing of flight 007 does not mean that we should abandon arms control talks or resort to needless military spending--such as for the MX missile. But it is time we stopped fooling ourselves about the real nature of the U.S.S.R...
Indeed, the Administration has already pulled back from some of its more controversial efforts to rescind what it considers needless rules and regulations...
...Needless to say, the Mannons are not your typical family. The incestuous love Orin (Alek Keshishian) feels for his mother and the similar feelings Vinnie (Amy Brenneman) has for her father incite the pair to murder. Passion, jealousy, revenge and guilt ooze from the play like poisons. In O'Neill's hands, the characters' idiosyncracies give us modern insight into the psychological motivations for the original Greek figures...
...managed to mobilize virtually all 100,000 inhabitants of the valley, while collecting his own taxes, running his own schools and organizing his own food-rationing scheme. He has even used captured Soviet trucks to establish daily bus service in the valley. Massoud is also prudent enough to avoid needless risks. He travels with four gun-wielding bodyguards and packs a 9-mm automatic under his jacket. In order to elude the KhAD, he sleeps in a different house each night...