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...illustrate his argument, Moynihan described a scenario in which the USSR could destroy all U.S. missiles using only half their own, thus leaving the United States powerless to retaliate, even with a second strike force...
...Israelis' declared intent was to protect their northern settlements from Palestinian guerrilla raids that both the U.N. and the Christian Militia forces seemed powerless to stop. Unlike their previous search-and-destroy missions into Lebanon last May and September, however, the Israelis' foray this time was bloodless. Then, by week's end-in a surprisingly cooperative response to U.N. entreaties and some arm twisting from Washington-they began to withdraw...
...playwright Terry is Leib's modern man, a Hamletized intellectual crippled not so much by the burden of the past as by his own lack of conviction and values, unable, in the face of the failure of language and thought, even to speak, much less create a play; powerless, without a belief in absolutes, to believe in the absolute of his art; left, when the only true meaning is in silence, only to groan. Leib has, in a way, belied his vision by actually writing an eminently successful modern play (this should be called Terry by Terry by Terry...
Ever since the overthrow of Military Dictator Carlos Humberto Romero by a group of junior army officers last October, the civilian-military junta has been powerless to halt the violence. In an attempt to prevent civil war, the present governing junta of two colonels and three civilians, including the respected longtime leader of the Christian Democratic Party, José Napoleon Duarte, ordered up a two-pronged plan of radical reform. To the shock and dismay of the country's small oligarchy, it called for a first-stage expropriation of 70% of the nation's most productive land from...
...sporadic clashes and acts of banditry and lawlessness. British authorities attribute most of the violations to ZANU guerrillas loyal to Mugabe, several thousands of whom remain at large or wander in and out of the camps at will. The 1,200 Commonwealth troops monitoring the cease-fire seem powerless to stop them...