Word: posts
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...issue here is accessibility and availability," says Democratic nominee for state representative Alvin E. Thompson, arguing that his opponent, incumbent Saundra M. Graham, has too many other obligations to properly fill that post. "She couldn't serve two masters," he says, referring to her jobs as City Councillor and state representative...
...that post, Thompson says, he "was involved with" minority hiring of teachers, police, nurses. He adds, "There have been five superintendents of schools since 1970...I have always been on the screening committees...
...interests, they have been able jointly to control regional conflicts, such as Sinai, 1956, for example.) The Security Council could try to manage the world as a committee of the great powers. But any great power condominium needs unanimity to work. And that might still prove elusive in a post-cold war world of five contending powers, even if no two are permanently set against each other by ideology...
...Without an Evil Empire to contend with, the job becomes easier -- there is less need to support dictators in the name of anti- Communism -- but harder to justify. Why make the effort? Seventy years ago, Americans were not wildly enthusiastic about Woodrow Wilson's crusade for democracy. Whether a post-Soviet America will want to embrace Wilsonian idealism any more than did a pre-Soviet America is an open question...
...most immediate of questions facing the nation, but it may soon be among the most important. More pressing now is the question of how to get to that post-Soviet world, how best to encourage either the reform or the further decline of the Soviet Union. However, since Gorbachev is certainly right that the Soviet Union faces only one of these two alternatives, and since either alternative will radically alter the international environment, the U.S. had best start thinking what it proposes to do in a post-cold war world. The outlines of the coming debate are clear. Once...