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...blank check for the President when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens." To many Americans, indeed, the whole point of the war was to preserve their country's democratic institutions. And unlike its fighting partners in World War II, when the Soviet despot Joseph Stalin was a confederate, America's key allies in the Global War on Terrorism were also democracies...
...nevertheless, Rocketi despairs at Karzai's recent proposal to recruit tribal militias to become a sort of police auxiliary, which he figures will just encourage them to greater lawlessness and corruption. "These militias destroyed our country," he says, referring to the devastating civil war that shattered Afghanistan following the Soviet withdrawal in 1989. "The nation was fed up with them, so the Afghan people welcomed the Taliban. And now the government wants to bring them back? This is madness." Now the greatest military alliance in the world is hoping to transform Afghanistan's madness into some sort of normality. NATO...
...long flashback about the gangster's prey, a haunted boxer called Swede (Burt Lancaster in his first movie). The 1964 version has murderous Lee Marvin tangling with the even more venal Ronald Reagan (in his last movie). The set also includes a third film, a short by renegade Soviet auteur Andrei Tarkovsky...
...more assurance or aplomb. She leaps, twists, spins, and the 18,000 people in Montreal's Forum realize that they are witnessing an exhibition of individual achievement that is truly Olympian. The judges agree. Their verdict on Nadia Comaneci, 14, of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Romania: she is perfect. Pripyat, Soviet Union June 23, 1986 For those who have seen it, Pripyat is a place of silence, devoid of life. The only movement that suggests human habitation is the flutter of laundry on clotheslines. But the laundry has been there, day and night, since April 27. On that day, most...
...years when Raśl ordered the death, imprisonment or ouster from the Communist Party of a long line of dissidents and potential rivals. As Defense Minister, Raśl, with Moscow's backing, built a 150,000-strong disciplined military that was tested in conflicts in Angola and Ethiopia. After the Soviet collapse brought an end to aid that had sustained Cuba, a pragmatic Raśl turned the much diminished army into a pioneer of free enterprise, managing the government's stakes in agriculture, industry and, now especially, tourism. Those reforms have provoked speculation that as President, Raśl, 75, would be more open...