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Call it pacifism, call it incipient neutralism, call it complacency born of three decades of peace and prosperity, but across Europe today an antimilitaristic mood is spreading through the body of public opinion, this time under the shadow of a growing Soviet arsenal. From Amsterdam to Bonn to London to Rome, marchers with BAN THE BOMB banners and antinuclear badges are loudly protesting attempts to reinforce Europe's nuclear deterrent forces. What is perhaps most remarkable about the phenomenon is that it is no longer seen only in traditional radical and leftist circles. TIME Senior Correspondent William Rademaekers reports...
...give military weight to Moscow's territorial claim over the disputed islands. The Kremlin may have made its point, but it has also aroused Japanese ire and permitted Japanese generals and hawkish politicians to talk more openly about increased defense spending. Japanese public opinion still fears the shadow of the country's militaristic past, and the government is quite sensitive to the lingering resentment among East Asian countries that were occupied by Japan in World War II. But, as one Japanese official puts it, "advocacy of a more active defense policy was virtually taboo a year...
Outside the major cities in the smaller towns of Castile and Andalucia, one finds the traditional Spanish character most intact. Toledo, 70 miles south of Madrid, is a town dominated by the shadow of El Greco, the expatriated Cretan painter who adopted the town as his home. Toledo may be the most visited small town in Spain, but it is also a microcosm of Spanish history, art, and architecture...
Those who follow college basketball had to smile when Clean Gene decided the national spotlight was too hard on his eyes a few years back and walked away from the UCLA job. Poor Gene just couldn't stand the pressure of coaching in John Wooden's shadow, of defending all those national titles. He said he guessed it suited him better to start a program from scratch, build it up himself...
Meanwhile, Joe B. Hall, who's been coaching in the shadow of a legend for years and loving it too, doesn't lose his cool...