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There was a neat, and perhaps inevitable, symmetry to the party decisions. Although hardly a liberal, Liu was a pragmatic bureaucrat who, unlike Mao, was willing to sacrifice ideological purity for the sake of economic development. Liu's posthumous rehabilitation thus completed the return to power of bureaucrats like Deng who were purged by Mao. At the same time, the removal of Deng's four chief enemies in the Politburo presumably gives him more freedom to install a new leadership team that will carry out his policies, now as well as after his death...
...disclose security information. The Times, in listing the motives of leakers, says that some fear that superiors may override their findings, some long for personal credit, others with a grudge may want to punish a politician "with publicity even if an indictment is not warranted." For the sake of a good story, the press sometimes commits its own honor to shielding questionable collaborators. At least, the press should do a better job of alerting readers to the advantage someone, or some group, gains by a particular leak. Harold Macmillan, the former Prime Minister of Britain, thinks journalists are too rigid...
...landlady's son, you'd be lucky. Then you'd hope that he'd remember you." Out of this he forged resiliency, durability and "the humor, I suppose." Certainly it tempered his ability to endure loneliness. "I've had marriages fail, and I know that working just for the sake of working doesn't help. What really does help is the fact that I don't mind being alone. I really don't mind. I'm quite happy to sit here and look out the window...
...does he take into account widespread American economic imperialism, often depriving Third World peasants even of the very soil under their feet (see Food First,) by Lappe and Collins). All evil is from the Soviet camp, he argues. Therefore he will not apologize to Iran even for the sake of 50 American lives; and when I asked him why not, after his talk, he cited "national pride" as the reason. Zbigniew Brzezinski is indeed a threat to world peace, and to the sanctity of individual lives, of whatever nationality. John E. Chappell...
...Iowa, Anderson stood alone among GOP candidates in supporting the grain embargo of the Soviet Union. In New Hampshire he is a maverick supporting gun control. Some may quibble about Anderson's metamorphosis from "conservative" to "liberal"; but he does not differ from other campaigners for difference's sake. His willingness to state publicly his regret that he voted in favor of the Gulf of Tonkin resolution at a time of swelling militarist sentiment provides evidence that Anderson could resist the often overwhelming temptation to military intervention. Furthermore, his many years of congressional experience offer another vital prerequisite...