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...reformation, the parade or the person leading it? The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize last week to Nelson Mandela, president of the African National Congress, and F.W. de Klerk, President of the Republic of South Africa, bolsters both sides of this timeworn debate. De Klerk is pre- eminently an individual who has been pushed forward by the tide of events, a man of conservative bent who has been prodded by historical forces to act progressively, even boldly. It is not implausible to argue that whoever succeeded P.W. Botha as President of South Africa would have been compelled to release...
...dawn of the nuclear age. But more than three years and $4.7 billion after Reagan's Star Wars speech of March 1983, there is no evidence that the answer this time is yes. Even if SDI could theoretically create a system that is survivable (i.e., invulnerable to a crippling pre-emptive attack) and cost-effective at the margin (cheaper to maintain than the enemy's offensive countermeasures)--and there is no evidence yet that this is possible--the situation would not last long. While one side is perfecting its defenses, the other is working feverishly on countermeasures--and very likely...
...widespread questions about how to base the MX and about Congress's willingness to fund it fully. But the Pentagon sees the Trident II as a crucial component of the U.S. arsenal for the 1990s because, like its predecessors, its submarine basing makes it invulnerable to a Soviet pre-emptive attack (assuming, of course, that the Soviets do not achieve a breakthrough in antisubmarine warfare). But the stickiest and most controversial part of the trade-off would be the limits the Soviets would demand on SDI. Here their position has been evolving. A year ago they wanted...
...eventing, each rider competes on the same horse through the four-day competition. Five selectors decide the Olympic team over an 18-month vetting period. It's a somewhat subjective process: eventing can't have win-and-in pre-Olympic trials because if the horses exerts too much energy before the Games, they might be spent for Beijing. The equine body can't bounce back like Michael Phelps...
...Mark Twain had an impact on Australia, too, and not just a literary one. On a visit here in 1895, he took a train from New South Wales to Victoria. At Albury, on the state border, he and the other passengers had to change trains in the freezing pre-dawn. He later attacked the absurdity of Australia's 22 different rail gauges, and the "paralysis of intellect that gave that idea birth." That line became part of the rallying cry that - several decades later - led to the standardization of all railways between Australia's mainland-state capitals. Tim Fischer, Wodonga...