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...gains of the Russian Revolutions (a planned economy and collectivized property) remain and must be defeated. Without the aid of the USSR. Cuba would have been reduced to irradiated rubble over 20 years ago; without Soviet arms and Cuban troops the Black nationalist regime in Angola would have been overrun by South Africa's racist army: and today the Red Army in Afghanistan is the one hope Afghan women have for emancipation from illiteracy, the bride price and enslavement to feudal tribesmen. It is unfortunately not true that Cuba and the USSR are supplying Salvadoran leftists and Nicaraguan Sandinistas with...
...world's fragmented little nations, Lebanon is one of the most perplexing. Once the home of the Phoenicians, it has been overrun at various times by Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, European Crusaders and Ottoman Turks. In 1932, when Lebanon was a French mandate, France conducted a national census that showed the Christians with a slight majority. When Lebanon became independent in 1943, followed by the evacuation of French troops three years later, the preponderance of political power was apportioned between Maronite Christians and Sunni Muslims on the basis of the 1932 head count, with a minimal share...
Clark sided with the worriers, and Pentagon planners, led by Iklé, successfully argued for a show of U.S. force to give the Nicaraguans pause and reassure the Hondurans and Costa Ricans that the U.S. would not let them be overrun. To that end, the Pentagon revved up planning that had begun as early as last February for naval and military maneuvers. The Defense Department last spring had won approval in principle from all agencies involved in Central American policy that maneuvers should be conducted, but had not specified how big or how long they would...
Chicago, a city not overrun with heroes, is embracing a new candidate, a long-ball hitter named Ronald Dale Kittle, who has been stunning the American League. He is close to homegrown, coming from 25 miles away in Gary, Ind., where his father is an ironworker. After failing with the Los Angeles Dodgers at 20, the son also walked the skeletons of buildings for a while. Kittle is constructed on the order of a building: long lines and sharp angles, 6 ft. 4 in. tall, a look of granite. He is like Chicago...
MAYBE a Third World center would be overrun by radicals who would drown out the moderate voices, making it a bastion of separatism Never mind that the very existence of those oh-so-abrasive radical elements suggests the existence of a real problem. Maybe a Third World center isn't the answer to the race relations problem. But the Foundation, as presently constituted, is barely a step in the right direction...