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...victory of Pat Buchanan. Here in the hallowed halls of Harvard and among the nation's elite pundits, one can hear the chorus of snickers and see the synchronized head-shaking deriding the Buchanan candidacy. His campaign can all too easily be dismissed by, and might eventually be sunk by, Buchanan's flirtation with authoritarianism, if not outright racism and anti-Semitism. True enough, Pat Buchanan's success has been a boon to all those who can almost hear the strains of "Sieg Heil to the Chief" wafting through their minds as they ease into bed at night...
...wake of the sexual revolution came AIDS. Once the realization had sunk into the human psyche that sex can be life-threatening, the nature of relationships in our society had to change. And there were two main roads our culture could follow. The first was to return to the 1950s notion of postponed intimacy. The second was to retain sex as part of the dating scene, but to make relationships monogamous. And this is what appears to have happened. Quite simply, the behavior of the most technologically advanced and socially complex civilization the world has ever known has been forced...
...many as 30,000 since fighting began last December. Yeltsin ruled out unconditional withdrawal, saying that a "total slaughter" would sweep Chechnya if the Russians left, which is surprising since Grozny was razed, and casualties mounted only after the Russian army invaded. Although Yeltsin realizes how low he has sunk in pre-election polls, his press secretary, Sergei Medvedev, says Yeltsin refuses to "beg" Jokar Dudayev for peace, which means talks are not on the horizon. TIME'S Yuri Zarakhovich reports: "This war is destroying Russia. People aren't being paid. The Army is hungry. It's no coincidence that...
...from his remarks was regret. He declared, like a stern grandfather admonishing the young, that while all wished the war to come quickly to its close, "if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said 'the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether...
Having organized an insurrectionist crew in the House, Gingrich seized the initiative from a temporarily passive President and steered the country onto a heading that the Speaker accurately proclaimed to be revolutionary. His venture is in a stormy mid-passage now. It may ultimately be forced back, or even sunk. Yet Gingrich did the work--crude, forceful, effective--that compelled the voyage in the first place. It is for that reason he is Time's Man of the Year...