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...like Hitler's 1000-year Reich, it ran out of steam long before anybody expected. Where American ideals and ideas once inspired millions worldwide with hope for the future, the nation now perceives itself as spiritually bankrupt and narcissistic. As the obsession with the gilded past and tragic future continues, it becomes imperative for historians to bulldoze the mythology surrounding the rise and decline of American culture and clear a space for honest interpretation of the bygone era. Ronald Steel depicts American political history through the life and work of Walter Lippmann '10, and achieves a syncretic vision...
...battlefronts, however, there was no evidence of waning enthusiasm. The initial assumption of many Western intelligence experts that the war would run out of steam within two or three weeks was being reappraised. Military analysts noted that neither side had yet committed all its weaponry and military resources. The bellicosity of both antagonists, along with an absence of common negotiating ground, now suggested that the war could drag on for months. Said a senior British diplomat: "Iraq can't bring Iran to its knees, and Iran won't negotiate under duress. That's the dilemma...
MASCO officials barely had time to deny the strikers' charges before the plant--which supplies steam, chilled water and electricity to 13 hospitals and Med School buildings--lost power Saturday night and emergency systems had to be switched...
...critical at a time of a global oil glut. But there was the dire possibility that the Strait of Hormuz, 30 miles wide at its narrowest point, at the southern end of the gulf, might be closed because of the hostilities. Halting the flow of the supertankers that steam through the passage would have a devastating ripple effect (see following story) by preventing the shipment of oil from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the smaller gulf states. That kind of drop in world supplies would be intolerable...
...were no longer serviceable. Army manpower was down from about 240,000 under the Shah to an estimated 180,000 as a result of desertions and purges; 250 generals had been replaced by inexperienced officers or by military-minded mullahs. Said a Pentagon expert: "In order to move full steam into a war like the one where they now find themselves, the Iranians should have been spit polishing, shining and checking that machinery day by day. Apparently a lot of it has just been sitting there since the revolution...