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Some members of the Reagan Administration suggest that nuclear wars are winnable. With ecological ruin, genetic damage and the possible destruction of all life, can there really be a winner...
...colleagues argue that this strategic doctrine is antiquated even dangerous, and should be discarded. Since both superpowers now have such huge arsenals, the four contend, it is unlikely that any nuclear fighting could be limited to Europe. It would escalate into "general nuclear war, which would bring ruin to all and victory to none." The authors argue, furthermore, that first use is no longer credible because the U.S. would then be ensuring its own destruction, and Western Europeans simply do not believe the U.S. would destroy itself to save the Continent. Thus the danger of all-out nuclear...
...military victory cheered Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's countrymen at a time when the government appears to have finally consolidated its powers. Until recently, political stability seemed beyond reach. Power struggles had racked virtually every sector of the government, and the economy was on the brink of ruin. An assassination campaign by leftist Mujahedin guerrillas claimed the lives of nearly the entire top tier of the government last year. Most costly of all has been the war with Iraq, which bled off $7 billion, or an estimated 17% of the government's annual budget. But the war also provided...
...look was liberating for some; for others, it resembled the prize exhibit in a dry cleaners' museum of horrors. Recalls Fred Pressman, president of Barney's New York, the forward-looking store that was Armani's first Stateside champion: "Manufacturers said I was trying to ruin the industry, promoting wrinkles. They didn't see the collection in terms of lifestyle, only as some kind of fashion statement, or misstatement. They couldn't understand why people would want things that wrinkled like that or draped like that...
Certainly, no site seems immune to the peculiar magic of Singer's imagination. In The Gentleman from Cracow, a tiny town is given unaccustomed luxury and then led to ruin by a wealthy young man who is really "a creature covered with scales, with an eye in his chest, and on his forehead a horn that rotated at great speed." Supernatural beings stalk the cities as well. In The Power of Darkness, a Warsaw district receives strange tidings: "The word soon spread . . . that a dybbuk had settled in Tzeitel's ear, and that it chanted the Torah, sermonized...