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First and foremost, the political??process--including significant Sunni participation--must pass its capstone test during the Dec. 15 election. Beyond that, Pentagon planners are tracking four main issues: enemy strength, the capability of Iraq's own security forces, effective local governance and technical and communication abilities to allow U.S. troops to talk to and support Iraqi forces when they need reinforcement. The U.S. military insists that all those benchmarks are trending in the right direction. For example, the Americans say that despite launching 50 attacks a day, the insurgents have been unable to derail political progress. Even more heartening...
In "How to Break the Political??Fever" [Nov. 1], Garrison Keillor offered recommendations on how to handle the postelection blues if your candidate loses, like taking a hike and rediscovering "the plain pleasures of the physical world." I enjoy Keillor's writing and would find myself politically on his side in the blue buffer that protects America's fervent red heart. Unfortunately, though, his advice is limited by geography. Thousands of dead Iraqi civilians certainly can't heed it. Whole schools of children in Iraq are too frightened of being kidnapped to venture outdoors. There...
...1889?the year the Eiffel Tower, symbol of materialist progress, was built?"we are a group of young people, devotees of the symbol, misunderstood by a world which mocks us Mystics! Lord, I pray you, may our reign come!" The desire for coherent symbols ?religious, mystical, anything but political???was as important a part of the early modernist program as the desire to purify art to flat patches of color on a flat surface. B Gauguin wanted to make vast allegories of human fate; Edvard Munch, in Norway, elaborated an entire structure of symbolism to describe the 1 inner...
...most frightening figure for the future is that OPEC nations stand to accumulate payments surpluses of $250 billion to $325 billion by 1980, and the rest of the world would run up exactly that much of a deficit.* For the countries that have them, surpluses create huge purchasing?and political???power. Conversely, deficits usually lead to recessions, devaluations and decline...
...troop withdrawals, the radical movement waned. Yet for all its profligacy, it accomplished some profound changes in American life. By its theatrical domination of the press and TV, it helped turn a majority of Americans against the war. Probably its most enduring effect will be cultural rather than political???the development of alternative lifestyles, for example. Much of the political energy of the movement was subsumed by the McGovern campaign. But for many months now, with the ending of the draft, the old activism has been dead. In many, a sullen kind of privatism has replaced the formerly furious idealism...