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...words really mean. But if we remember for a second what we are really about, the business of electing decent Presidents, it should not be hard to get rid of this whiskey-semantic trance; carry a dictionary and a Constitution about when you listen to the President speak, and refer to them, not to your yearning for the frontier. Then let us hope that in 1985, we can send all the thises, peacekeeping forces and randomly cited percentages back to California, where they belong...
Examples of our religious foundations abound. The national motto, "In God We Trust," is imprinted on all of our currency. We refer to God in our national anthem and in "America." President Reagan has proclaimed a Jewish Heritage Week as well as declaring 1983 the "Year of the Bible." The words "Anno Domini" (translated: "in the year of our Lord") or "A.D." have pervaded our time references, are chiseled into nearly every federal building, and are found in every Presidential document. And the most telling of all, we publicly continue to celebrate the birth and crucifixion of Jesus Christ...
...antisatellite gadgets were invented because space is already militarized. Both superpowers use satellites for secret communications and to spy on each other's military operations. When arms-control treaties refer to "national technical means" of verifying compliance, they essentially mean reconnaissance satellites. The U.S. is exceptionally dependent on its military satellites and so has more to lose in a star war. For now, however, the most critical U.S. spies in the sky are, at 22,300 miles, far too high to be jeopardized by current Soviet ASAT weapons...
...have come from the U.S.-trained Salvadoran army may be inflated, there is little doubt that the guerrillas have all they need. The insurgents claim that during the first five months of 1983, they seized 1,700 assault rifles, 27 mortars, 20 grenade launchers and 37 machine guns. Rebels refer to their rifles as "my gift from Reagan...
...word carousel, Tobin Fraley informs us, is derived from the old Italian carosello, meaning tournament. The term came to refer to the medieval Moorish practice of training mounted swordsmen on wooden horses attached to circling beams. In The Carousel Animal (Zephyr; 127 pages; $19.95) Fraley, an Oakland, Calif, restorer of antique merry-go-round animals, closes the distance between this forgotten martial art and the magic of the amusement park. Gary Sinick's photographs of stallions frozen in mid-prance, oversize rabbits, frogs and chickens reveal the wealth of detail and coloration that distinguished the finest carousel craftsmen...