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...March 12, 1989. Since then, the two Germanys have united, Nelson Mandela has been freed, Earth Day has made people everywhere more conscious of their environment and the butterfly of democracy has begun to emerge from the cocoon of totalitarianism in Eastern Europe. I take no responsibility for the Persian Gulf crisis...
...military face-off in the Persian Gulf does seem, as George Bush puts it, to be Iraq vs. the world. Twenty-four countries have sent powerful armies, fleets and air squadrons to confront a nation of 17 million people. If anyone needed proof that the days of old-fashioned gunboat diplomacy are gone, that should fill the bill. Iraq, along with many other Third World countries, has acquired such sophisticated, destructive armaments that even a superpower feels more comfortable about standing up to Baghdad with the help of allies...
...there ever been a more reluctant superpower than America? Has any great power taken less pleasure in its foreign adventures? I doubt it. As shown yet again in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. is the world leader, and Americans hate the job. The idea that the world is an arena of unending conflict repels Americans. It means that a superpower's work is never done...
...Harvard, which was home to many a student takeover in the late '60s, anti-war sentiment of the Persian Gulf genre first reared its head this week. On Thursday and Friday, the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) sponsored a teach-in at the Science Center and attracted respectable crowds...
...course, the optimists say that it is still too soon to make pronouncements about the impact of Persian Gulf protests...