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...under its control. This contradiction is difficult to bear. It gives rise to a series of questions about which a Frenchman must speak with caution. Nations that have a nuclear capability find it easier to avoid such crises than nations that have none and that feel themselves prey to the decisions of others. I believe these tensions would ease if the Americans, who have expressed their willingness to do so, were to begin arms negotiations with the Soviet Union without further delay. I believe they must...
...offer. And it is one of the world's most dangerous cities. Visitors are instructed not to walk anywhere at night, and to exercise great caution during the day, especially on weekends. A downtown neighborhood which contains a few leading hotels has earned the nickname "Murder Mile." Marauders prey on tourists and others and then melt into the lines for the buses to Soweto...
...species that combines the lagomorph's gnawing teeth with the long, hoofed legs of the ungulates to form a new genus, Ungulagus. These super-rabbits will not have to worry about the wolves, foxes and feline carnivores that attack deer today; such predators will vanish with their present prey. But they may have to keep a watchful eye out for falanx, Amphimorphodus cynomorphus: dog-size predators likely to evolve as today's rats sense a new opportunity and literally grow into...
...forelimbs for swimming. Another could, in the absence of competition, turn into the carnivorous night stalker, a flightless sightless bat, with ears as sensitive as a NORAD radar antenna, that carries its clawlike hind legs over its shoulders as it roams around on its forelegs screeching, in search of prey...
Turning from memories to current concerns, Oney denounces the conservative backlash against innovative "new journalists" in the wake of the Janet Cooke incident earlier this year. Cooke, he suspects, "fell prey to the highly competitive scene at the Washington Post." But, he adds, conservative editors are over-reacting by calling for "the death of the new journalists"--people who Oney says enhance journalism by "using the full complement of techniques writers can use to make a point" The soft-spoken Oney does not appear to get perturbed often, but he is more biting than usual when discussing those who would...