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Even if the embargo were to prove largely successful, it is unlikely that anybody in the U.S.S.R. would go hungry. The bulk of the grain from the U.S. is corn, which is fed to livestock. The Kremlin has been striving to build up its herds after a distress slaughter prompted by bad harvests in the mid-1970s. At the moment, Soviet ports and storage areas are crammed with grain, so any embargo would not be felt for a few months. When the grain runs out, the herds would again be slaughtered to feed people. Toward...
...powers to face courageously the problems before us. Ahead lies a time when the authority of the state and of law will be challenged as it had not been since the dawn of the modern era, a time of fiscal and economic upheavals, and, possibly, of yet more mass slaughter on the scale perpetrate by Nazi Germany and Communist Cambodia...
...even a battle scene at the climax" reveals a saddening ignorance of Star Trek's underlying message of optimism. In a future when we have achieved superior technology, it is hoped, we will put that knowledge to a more humane and productive use than the efficient slaughter of one another...
...Carnival in Romans Le Roy Ladurie provides a new aperture-and another compelling view. The place is the small city of Romans in southeastern France. The year is 1580. France is still recovering from the widespread slaughter of the Huguenots in the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of 1572; skirmishes still go on between Catholic and Huguenot. Town and countryside are periodically ravaged by roving bands of brigand soldiers. Class bitterness over increasingly burdensome taxes breaks out in tax strikes, urban unrest and peasant revolt. It all coils up toward Mardi Gras, culminating in a bloody midnight clash...
Khomeini's demagoguery notwithstanding, even after that slaughter, the total number of the Shah's victims simply cannot be compared to the millions killed by Hitler and Stalin; nor can the tenor of his regime be likened to that of Hitler's Germany or Stalin's Soviet Union. Even among contemporary despots, the Shah is not the worst. One prominent member of the International Commission of Jurists classifies the Shah as in a "second league" of tyrants, below Uganda's Idi Amin, Cambodia's Pol Pot and Central African Emperor Jean Bokassa...