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...sort of a Star Wars fantasy." Even Southern California Edison officials concede it would take billions of dollars and decades of public works to electrify the streets of Los Angeles. There may never be electric roads in the snowbound Midwest or in Eastern cities subject to the freeze-and-thaw cycles that turn the best-made highways into roller coasters of bumps and potholes...
...things that has spurned this on," says Robert M. Gogan, head of the student environmentalist group at the School of Education, "is the seeming thaw of the Cold War. People ask `so what's left as the big issue?" Many of them, Gogan adds, have concluded that it is saving the planet from ecological collapse...
...comparison seems ironic in light of the ongoing thaw in superpower relations. As part of that rapprochement, Washington and Moscow have backed away from unstinting support of their respective allies in the Middle East. That has forced realignments in the Arab diplomatic constellation and weakened Israel's once unchallenged claim to being of strategic importance to the U.S. But the unwinding of East-West tensions has done little to alleviate regional stresses. Instead, the Middle East arms race is escalating...
...ring and human outside it. In Houston, Foreman said he was ready to dispatch all comers -- including Don King. And in Philadelphia, Stallone was shooting Rocky V. He must feel about his boxing movies the way John le Carre does about cold-war novels after the communist thaw: What do I do to top real life...
That same year, 1956, the thaw melted too quickly as far as the Kremlin was concerned. Polish crowds demonstrated to demand a change of leadership. The Hungarians even overthrew their government and enjoyed one heady week of independence. Then Khrushchev sent in Soviet tanks to restore the old order. When he was forced out in 1964, Leonid Brezhnev seemed even more determined to maintain that old order forever, sending more tanks to suppress Czech independence in 1968 and warning that he would do so again whenever necessary. He too proclaimed a new constitution in 1977, declaring more strongly than ever...