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County Armagh in Northern Ireland is a 512-sq. mi. patchwork of rocky grazing pastures whose southern tip juts 15 miles deep into the Irish Republic. This salient is populated by some 20,000 predominantly Roman Catholic farmers and dairymen, many of whom still resent the untidy mapwork that placed them in the British-ruled North rather than the independent South at the time of the 1921 partition. Armagh is a staging area for gunmen of the Provisional Wing of the Irish Republican Army (Provos), who frequently enter the country from sanctuaries in the Irish Republic to strike at British...
...located near the center of the salient. Crossmaglen's most distinguishing feature is a fire-gutted remnant of the town hall, destroyed by the British after an I.R.A. ambush. Half a block off the main square, whose principal commercial life revolves around ten seedy-looking pubs, is a British army post housing some 110 Royal Fusiliers. The compound is known locally as the Alamo, and for good reason: it is ringed by two-story-high corrugated steel walls, topped by concertina wire and strung over with camouflage netting...
...more salient examples of Peretz's sense of priorities, he gave Theodore Draper six pages in one issue to attack Noam Chomsky's book, "Peace in the Middle East," which was critical of Israel. Peretz allowed Chomsky to defend himself in a subsequent issue...
Simon's recurring worry that the financing of large federal deficits will crowd out private investment from the capital markets also ignores the salient facts. Most of this year's deficit and over $50 billion of next year's estimated $70 billion deficit is attributable simply to a weak economy. The Congressional Budget Office, for example, points out that every extra one per cent of unemployment increases the deficit by approximately $16 billion because of lower tax receipts and higher outlays for unemployment compensation. This part of the deficit doesn't crowd out private credit. It merely compensates...
...meagerly defended by nice ones." Nasty or nice, honest men could disagree about the China experts' judgment, but it was their loyalty that was frenetically attacked. They were railroaded out of the Foreign Service, or at best shunted off to obscure posts far from Asia. Their salient fault was to have reported on China as they saw it: America's ally, Chiang Kaishek, looked to them like a loser in 1944, and the Communists, with their grass-roots appeal, like winners. Later, during the early 1950s, the investigators willfully confused prediction with preference until it became plausible...