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...global President, the diplomatic road warrior (a rattled rocket here, a helping hand there), Bush has raised presidential motion beyond art to religion. He has always been nervous sitting still. He is at his absolute best in some wind-scoured distant city like Prague, raincoat crunched around him, hair blowing, lifting the hopes of more than 100,000 Czechs -- or in Paris, glad-handing his way through mirrored halls while the First Lady is off in the Grand Palais viewing one of Picasso's works, cocking her head this way and that, deciding "it had about 18 different ideas...
...Bundeswehr Ost, the remains of the former East German army, has inherited a logistical nightmare: getting rid of the Soviet army. According to U.S. military attaches, the Soviets have more than a million tons of munitions stockpiled on German soil, not counting the array of tanks, guns, planes and rocket launchers to deliver them. In addition, the 380,000 Soviet troops still stationed in East Germany occupy some 2,000 military "objects," which means everything from barracks to hospitals to airfields. If the Soviets meet the current four-year timetable for withdrawal, they will have to dispose $ of about...
...least I didn't let Amonte score," Hughes commented wryly, still sore from a third-period rocket to the chest--one of many he stopped and smothered...
...absence of "values," it is worth recalling that children are an honest conscience, the perfect mirror of a society's priorities and principles. A society whose values are entirely material is not likely to breed a generation of poets; anti-intellectualism and indifference to education do not inspire rocket scientists. With each passing day these arguments become more apparent, the needs more pressing. Where is the leader who will seize the opportunity to do what is both smart and worthy, and begin retuning policy to focus on children and intercept trouble before it breeds...
Gaffney sent a rocket just to the left of the cage. Kristen Fowler fired a bullet, but just missed...