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...Savimbi can get what he wants, southern Africa will be faced with a radical state far more reminiscent of the Khmer Rouge than any form of democracy, and history will forever associate Crocker and Reagan with not one, but two, of the biggest foreign-policy debacles since the Sudetenland...
...debates tend to sound like audi tions for a road company of 7776. Arguments are nearly always flotsam-packed and comically eclectic, skittering from Burger King to Rousseau, from Bruce Springsteen to the Sudetenland. Says Gilbert: "You can't really prepare, so everything becomes important: something your mother once said, a tidbit from sociology class...
...negotiations "people problems" are at least as determinative of the outcome as the merits, and deserving of equal attention. The point is simply not to confuse the two in deciding what to do. Don't try to treat Hitler's megalomania by making a concession on the merits of Sudetenland...
ANOTHER EXAMPLE--the nation state. It is disappearing, Toffler argues in the 16 pages he allots to the subject, to be replaced by transnational organizations and a "planetary consciousness." As proof, Toffler cites the hot flames of--nationalism. In Corsica, in Scotland, in Wales, Cornwall, Essex, Belgium, Switzerland, the Sudetenland, the South Tyrol, Austria, the Basques and Catalan, Quebec, Western Australia, the South Island of New Zealand, even Puerto Rico, Alaska and the Pacific Northwest, patriots are going their separatist ways, he says. Some, perhaps those who reset their watches every spring with an easy conscience, might protest that this...
...January at a Jerusalem banquet for Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Ibrahim Kamel, for example, Begin patronizingly referred to his guest as a "young man" who failed to understand the supposed parallel between the Palestinian desire for a homeland on the West Bank and the Nazis' claim to the Sudetenland. Later he brusquely dismissed the significance of Sadat's visit to Jerusalem by asserting: "We have existed, my dear Egyptian friends, without your recognition for 3,700 years. We never asked your President or government to recognize our right to exist...