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Americans, he continued, voted in 1968 to enter a "holding pattern." But if they remained afraid to break with their past, Wills warned that Americans would have to resist...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: ON BOOKS | 3/3/1987 | See Source »

...resist this poem

Author: By Maia E. Harris, | Title: SCRUTINY | 2/26/1987 | See Source »

...said his government would resist any attempt to force Israeli officials to testify about the country's participation in arranging seven U.S. weapons shipments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senator: Reagan Approved Arms to Iran | 2/20/1987 | See Source »

While this country may once have been vulnerable to the siren song of political sophistry, today's citizens who bother to think about politics at all are a toughened, cynical lot who can resist such blandishments. The political content of art has always been secondary to its crowd-pleasing appeal; the same audiences who saw Rambo two years ago the Top Gun last year are now flocking to Platoon, simply because they like a good heavy-calibre war flick...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: BLOW-UPS: | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

...diplomat. Indeed, the disappearance of Waite may have provided evidence of that. In the aftermath of the scandal over secret U.S. arms sales % in exchange for hostages, the temptation to seize and hold the Anglican envoy as a bargaining chip may have been too great for terrorists to resist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: A Deepening Sense of Frustration | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

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