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...highest innovations in sports and politics, however, have been reached right here on the home soil of the U.S. in those quadrennial massmedia feeding frenzies. Whether it be through endless, meaningless commentary on unimportant happenings in the early stages of the Democratic primary, or in gloss, hype, and up-close-and-personal interviews with sports celebrities who weren't famous yesterday and won't be tomorrow, every four years the national media must strive after a task worthy of the Creator himself: the creation of something out of nothingness...
Some host nations, moreover, are having second thoughts about allowing American installations on their soil at any price. One reason is their belief that the bases are less likely to be used against a threat posed by the Soviet Union than against a state like Libya, whose primary offense would probably be directed against the U.S. Writes Neoconservative Guru Irving Kristol in the Wall Street Journal: "What they do fear is getting entangled in a conflict that serves American interests but not their own. In short, what was once defined as an identity or at least mutuality of interests...
...summer and drove iced spikes into their souls in winter. Had they looked down, they would have seen earth that in 1900, only a half-century later, would produce 1 1/2 times the wealth put out by all the world's gold mines. But coaxing wealth from sun and soil and water is a process of patience and presence. Nomads have little understanding of that life, and movement is much of presidential politics...
...purpose is to pick delegates to attend obscure county conventions in March, but the results will be heralded in 76-trombone fashion as the first referendum on the 1988 field. In one of American democracy's strangest eccentricities, these 200,000 dutiful citizens from an atypical prairie and river-soil state could have far more say in sorting out the presidential contenders than anyone else...
...reduce the U.S. military presence in Spain in return for passage of a 1986 referendum endorsing the country's continued membership in NATO. Agreement on the F-16 issue should also smooth the way for a new treaty that will allow continued U.S. access to other bases on Spanish soil...