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After listening to the generals and admirals for several hours, I realized that many of us on the outside have oversimplified the terms of the debate that is going on within the defense establishment. In "the Tank," the mahogany-paneled room where the Joint Chiefs of Staff meet regularly to thrash out their problems, global unilateralism and collective internationalism do not seem quite so much like a strategic dichotomy, an either-or choice that the U.S. must make now and live with for decades. Instead, the chiefs want to ; keep all options open. When necessary, they want...
...prospect clearly made our briefers uneasy. There was no mention of the U.N. on their many charts, so my fellow visitor, Samuel Lewis, kept raising the issue. A former American ambassador to Israel, he is now president of the U.S. Institute of Peace, a congressionally funded foundation and think tank devoted to conflict resolution. At his probing, our hosts were willing to allow that U.S. military units might participate in a multinational peacekeeping mission under a non-American general in a U.N. blue beret. But their lack of enthusiasm for the idea was palpable...
...western unions refuse to see that anything they get will be swallowed by inflation," says Meinhard Miegel, head of the Institute for Economy and Society, a Bonn think tank. "They will do nobody any good, not even themselves." Kohl has tried, in vain, to tell workers that. "The simple fact is that we cannot live beyond our means in the long term," he said. "Everyone must be aware that everything now pushed through on the wages side beyond a reasonable level is definitely no longer available for investment and jobs...
...helped design a sewage treatment plant that forgoes modern technology for more traditional means. "People aren't the only ones with sewage to treat," he told us. "Every animal out there makes some, and Nature takes care of it." Modeled on a wetlands, his plant is a series of tanks open to sunlight. The sewage flows through so slowly you can't see it move. At the front end, there are only bacteria. Farther down you can find worms, shrimp, and then fish. "When we wanted to start the plant running, we needed all the little beasties you find...
...with us again; he had done the solar work here as well. By this point I had had about enough lecturing on solar power for one day. There was the same copper tank in the basement and the same talk about thermal efficiency, floor radiant and sweat equity...