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...Afghanistan and the imposition of martial law in Poland in 1981, the Soviet Union volubly denounced the U.S. moves but did not so much as hint at military action in retaliation. This underlined a rule of U.S.-Soviet competition that neither side will ever acknowledge publicly: each has a sphere of interest that the other respects...
...economic sphere, International Monetary Fund (IMF) statistics from 1979 show that South African trade with Israel is miniscule when compared to South African trade with other parts of the world. Israel ranks seventeenth in receiving South African exports (.5 percent of exports) and twenty-third in supplying its imports (.4 percent of imports). The major western industrial nations (the U.S., U.K., Japan and West Germany) are at the top of the list. Forty-six of fifty-two members of the Organization of African unity have commercial relations with South Africa. So much for Louis' U.S.-Israel-South Africa "axis...
...versus a group of friends sitting on a couch, smiling encouragingly, waving brightly-coloured plastic baseball bats." It is here that Pesetsky's wisdom lies; rather than offer epigram, dogma, or role model, she generally keeps her characters' lives firmly within the Barnum & Bailey's that is their natural sphere...
...weights and measures by adopting the metric system. Its scientists confidently set the meter as 1/10,000,000 of the distance between the North Pole and the equator. Making that measurement, however, turned out to be impossibly difficult not only because the earth is far from a perfect, unchanging sphere but because of France's internal turmoil. The government's surveyors were arrested as royalist spies, narrowly escaping the guillotine...
...coup d'etat with the threat of an external power." In the Reagan Administration's view, Grenada is a case in point: the U.S. may have intervened directly two weeks ago, but the Soviets and the Cubans have been engaging in indirect aggression in the Western Hemi sphere for years. Nor is the problem confined to superpowers. The Sandinista government of Nicaragua provides tactical aid and support for the Marxist-Leninist rebels of nearby El Salvador, and the U.S., of course, is backing anti-Sandinista rebels. (Last week the U.S. Senate approved $19 million in continuing covert...