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...born warriors like Zielinski, the opportunity??to put those lessons into practice can't come soon enough. Yet while West Point has been producing generals for 200 years, not every generation hears the same call. When Major Jason Amerine was attending West Point in the early '90s, the appeal of a career in uniform was fading. The Berlin Wall fell during his freshman year. "We went from the cold war to a thousand points of light," he recalls. "The feeling was, What are we doing?" During the first Gulf War, in 1991, the academy took to playing I'm Proud...
...Middle East and the sea lanes of the Pacific threaten the vital economic interests of the Western democracies and Japan. The Soviet Union is seen as exploiting?if not actually instigating?new problems for the capitalist world. "The Soviet tendency in recent years to take advantage of targets of opportunity???incrementally, deliberately, persistently?raises questions in Congress and among the public about the U.S.S.R.'s commitment to détente," Muskie told TIME last week. "It raises questions whether they really share our perception about the world, whether they believe in domination or coexistence...
...increase. At the moment nearly all such speculation centers on Connally. "You couldn't write a better scenario for Connally than what is happening in the Republican presidential campaign," says one of his political aides. But Connally's associates insist that he is making no move to seize the opportunity???yet. He is only giving speeches on college campuses, appearing at party fund raisers, keeping his options open and staying neutral in the Reagan-Ford bloodletting...
...stop sign. The world's only nation unilaterally to renounce the right to produce nuclear weapons, it is disappointed that it is still feared and mistrusted as a potential nuclear menace. It is tired of being the favorite whipping boy of Russia and the Communist countries, which take every opportunity???as did Premier Aleksei Kosygin last week in France?to attack its policies and raise the specter of neo-Nazism or fascism. It wishes devoutly that De Gaulle would stop chiding it for not following his leadership, as if Germany were a nation of schoolboys. "Whichever way the Federal Republic...
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