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During this episode, George Bush has displayed his favorite quality, prudence, to good effect. He understands that politics is a matter of being right about ends as well as means, of recognizing limits as well as obligations and opportunities. The last thing Bush wants is to repeat the mistake that the Eisenhower Administration made in 1956 when it egged on the Hungarian freedom fighters, leading many of them to die in the expectation of more help than the West could possibly provide. Bush has correctly concentrated on persuading Gorbachev to avert bloodshed and work toward a compromise. To urge...
...next day, Baker applied some skillful pressure himself. Following an hour-long meeting with De Klerk, the Secretary of State said before reporters: "May I repeat what you told me at the conclusion of our meeting? That 'we are engaged here in South Africa in an irreversible process that we will follow to its logical conclusion.' " Reporters could only guess whether or not De Klerk meant the comment to be repeated...
After a major air crash, it can take the Federal Aviation Administration months or even years to act to prevent a repeat tragedy. Last week the FAA proposed an order to require DC-10 operators to modify their planes to prevent the kind of hydraulic failure that caused a United Airlines DC-10 to crash in Sioux City, Iowa, last July, leaving 112 dead. Expected to take effect this summer, the order calls on U.S. airlines to install a hydraulic shutoff valve in the tail section of 243 DC-10s at a collective cost of $7.7 million...
...many Europeans the inhuman crimes of the Third Reich are as vivid as yesterday. The very word German can cause a shudder; some are convinced that history could repeat itself. Conor Cruise O'Brien, the Irish academic, has a preposterously anachronistic vision: "In the new, proud, united Germany, the nationalists will proclaim the Fourth Reich. I can see some of the consequences: expulsion of Jews, breaking off of relations with Israel, a military mission to the Palestine Liberation Organization, a statue of Hitler in every town...
Although Lewis may have wanted to come backfrom the nationals and repeat his statechampionship, Alabama typing amateurs were pleasedthat he would never compete again. Under theofficial regulations of the state tournament,former champions are forbidden from competing fora second time