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...SOVIETS, of course, have been equally intransigent. Poland and Afghanistan were clearly expansionist moves despite all of Pravda's explanations to the contrary. The Soviet nostalgia over 50 years of relations, remembering American Soviet relations as years of American perniciousness broken only by Presidents Kennedy and Roosevelt is only a slightly less reasonable form of illusion-making than arguments about who is more committed to peace. Moreover, the repressive Soviet regime promises little for an intelligent Soviet approach to the issues of diplomacy, since Soviet leaders practice an equal level of outrageous posturing with their own citizens and with...
...that salesmen started soliciting ads for Esquire, President Franklin Roosevelt closed all the nation's banks. The magazine, which emphasized men's fashion, was to be distributed primarily through clothing stores, but the first issue's newsstand copies sold so quickly that the staff frenziedly retrieved what they could from the haberdashers. Three years later, Esquire had a profitable circulation of 440,000 and was publishing works that are still remembered, including Ernest Hemingway's The Snows of Kilimanjaro, and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Crack-Up. Other magazines that competed for big-name writers...
...that history will repeat itself. They disagree as to precisely what history is about to be repeated, but everyone is quick to raise the specter of the return of some dreaded "another." The critics see another Viet Nam here, another round of gunboat diplomacy (carried out by another Teddy Roosevelt) there. Administration officials are quoted as explaining that the Grenada invasion was meant variously to prevent "another Iran," "another Beirut"(!), "another Nicaragua" or "another Suriname." (There is irony here. Suriname had fallen under Cuban influence after a recent military takeover. The day after the Grenada invasion, Suriname expelled the Cuban...
Grenadian reality is far less exotic. It takes a citizen of the Caribbean, more in control of his historical imagination and more in command of the facts on the ground, to see Grenada for what it is. Jamaican Prime Minister Edward Seaga, no Teddy Roosevelt he, contributed troops to the Grenadian invasion force. His concern was not that Grenada was recapitulating any past disaster; on the contrary, it was creating for the islands of the English-speaking Caribbean a wholly new one. Military juntas and large armies are alien to the region, he explained. The largest army in the Organization...
...ORDER TO insure stability the U.S. has habitually answered Central American uprisings with force. Such was the notion behind Theodore Roosevelt's Big Stick approach to the regions' troubles. It was Roosevelt who began the practice to dispatching the marines for any misbehavior south of the border. When, during the Depression, this became too costly a procedure, the U.S. began training local armies, such as Nicaragua's infamous National Guard, to do its police work...