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...Furthermore, the Senate, on Saturday, passed historic legislation making it all but impossible to decide on space-based deployment by 1993. Over the past seven years, Congress has appropriated $20.2 billion for the program. But critics on both sides of the aisle have become disillusioned by the Pentagon's relentless drive to put some version of Star Wars into space before it is killed outright. In their haste, the skeptics say, SDI's managers are skimping on tests that could determine whether the system will actually work...
These are facts whose cumulative, corrosive effect on Southern distinctiveness is obvious. But there is also the mass culture's relentless assault on the sense of context, continuity and community in the South no less than elsewhere. White Southerners of my generation were raised on the glories of the Lost Cause. Our grandchildren are raised on Saturday-morning cartoons...
...Nixon's day of vindication, his ultimate emergence from the "wilderness" that followed Watergate. It has been 16 years since he flew west to San Clemente in disgrace. He worked long, stubbornly and bravely, to rehabilitate his reputation. He wrote seven books, traveled the world, kept himself on a relentless forward trajectory. He was performing yet again his old miracle of self-resurrection...
...Under a relentless cross-examination, Boesky stuck to his story that Mulheren's firm bought 75,000 shares of Gulf & Western to drive up the stock's value and enable Boesky to sell his own shares back to Gulf & Western at a handsome profit. Mulheren, whose attire throughout the trial ran toward aggressively casual sport shirts, jeans and sockless shoes, denied any wrongdoing, but the jury believed Boesky...
...deter the Soviet Union from launching an invasion through West Germany to the English Channel. With that danger diminished to the vanishing point, NATO is already undergoing its own deconstruction, more subtle, dignified and gradual than that of the Warsaw Pact but in the long run just as relentless...