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...distinction between economic and social deregulation was not made clearly. Deregulation may make a lot of sense in the economic sphere, but (in the environmental area) we're talking about rationalization of regulation--making it work better; more efficiently, and be more target-specific. These was a confusion of ends and means...
...force in the superpower struggle represents a challenge by Reagan to the "Brezhnev doctrine," the late Soviet President's determination, aimed at Poland and other nations, that Moscow has the right to use military force to prevent pro-Soviet governments from drifting or being pulled out of its sphere. The "Reagan doctrine," as indicated by the rationales for the Grenada invasion, is that the U.S. can and may use force to challenge regimes that threaten American security...
...fought, it was that one, against such evil. But war always has its reasons, its internal logic. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was despicably aggressive to most Americans but made abundant sense to the Japanese general staff. It was an essential means of staking out the Japanese sphere of influence. That imperial ambition was only extinguished, at last, by the terrible light that burst over Hiroshima. The end of World War II was the beginning of the unthinkable. The Bomb became the black presiding presence in the world: in the logic of arms race and nuclear deterrence, the wild...
...superb mind. In his world nothing stands still. All moves; all changes. There are no straight lines. Everything curves. The world has an end but no boundary. It is like an orange with the rind pared down to nothing and the pips taken out. Within and around that imaginary sphere which remains of the orange, intangible forces wave in every direction. Some waves bump and dampen each other's motion until they have no movement left. But their energy is not lost. It goes into other waves which may bump and merge and thereby strengthen each other. Electrons...
...amazing the lengths to which the West's unilateralists will go in trying to absolve the USS of any wrongdoing. This summer the World Council of Churches, in a statement belying that innocuous title, told us that Poland was in Russia's sphere of influence and so we should not worry about it, and that Afghanistan was really not worth mentioning, since it might pact Third World and Eastern Bloc representatives to the Council. Now we have a Crimson editorial blaming the callous destruction of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 on the continuing atmosphere of distrust brought...