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...military historians have challenged Podhoretz's casualty figures, the Kissinger specialists have picked apart his analyses of Cambodia. This reviewer know's relatively little about those matters, but a good deal about the history of the domestic antiwar movement. If Podhoretz's treatment of that great and powerful outburst is typical of the way he deals with the facts, then much of this book is a twisted, lying account. Though he allows at one point that the "radicals who openly supported the Communists were in a minority even within the leftist opposition," virtually every other discussion of the opposition makes...
When, at the end of our semester it was time to leave, the wheels of our Finnair jet lifted from the runway of Moscow's Sheremetivo airport, and our group burst into thunderous applause and joyous cheers. Our euphoric outburst was a natural expression of our relief at leaving the frustrations of Soviet life behind and finally heading home. For some of us, it was also an expression of thanksgiving for the degree of liberty that American can democracy, despite serious faults, has managed to protect...
Reagan's homely anecdotes often prove to be factually wrong. TV commonly focuses its cameras on the glibbest or noisiest "man (or woman) in the street" to typify instant public reaction. This mutual use offer-example is what made Reagan's outburst so heartfelt: "Is it news that some fellow out in South Succotash some place has just been laid off, that he should be interviewed nationwide?" In turn, checking the accuracy of every anecdote the President uses to make a point may seem a picayune exercise for the press, but it is unavoidable when argument by anecdote...
...report on the Brixton riots released last week and commissioned by the Conservative government last April while the streets still smoldered, Lord Scarman, 70, a senior judge, concludes, "There was a strong racial element in the disorders. But they were not a race riot. The riots were essentially an outburst of anger and resentment by young black people against the police." Lord Scarman concedes that while "institutional racism" does not exist in Britain, "racial disadvantage and its nasty associate racial discrimination have not yet been eliminated. They poison minds and attitudes. They are, and so long as they remain, will...
...prerogatives, has trouble being the type of amiable team player that Reagan likes to have around. Haig's aides agree that the Secretary harbors a pent-up frustration toward Reagan's top advisers, who lack foreign policy expertise and often constrain his actions. In a recent outburst to three of his close aides, Haig declared that the White House is a "rain barrel" of reverberating noise and that he is the only official prepared for action...