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...real surprise. Ethnic separatism has always been Gorbachev's blind spot, a yearning for which the Soviet President has neither sympathy nor patience. Though he likes to claim he is simply "enforcing the constitution," he has been consistent in his efforts to neutralize democratically elected governments in republics that threaten to slip away from the Kremlin's control. While he has put up with considerable disorder, which dismays his generals, he has demonstrated before that he is ready to use armed force to hold the union together. Now Gorbachev has adopted stale Stalinist lies by claiming he is responding...
...predictions for the war's aftermath envision a solution to the Palestinian problem and the emergence of new collective security arrangements that would calm the tempestuous region. The darkest prognoses foresee a Lebanon-like partitioning of Iraq and Jordan and a fueling of nationalist and Islamic extremism that would threaten Western interests and perhaps even bring down moderate Arab regimes. The array of possibilities is bewildering even to those who are leading the war effort. "Some sort of planning needs to be done," conceded Defense Secretary Dick Cheney while appearing before the House Armed Services Committee last December. "Everybody...
Ideally, a fine-line war would be waged, a battle that leaves Iraq powerful enough to defend its own borders but too weak to threaten its neighbors. But attempting to craft such an outcome in advance is asking too much. War is never as clean as planned. More important, if such plans were drawn and executed, a key strategic goal could be crippled. If Saddam is reckless enough to "take" a war, then he will have proved his insanity and his ability to wage battle again ought to be eliminated. Thus the scenario that envisions Saddam suing for peace after...
Obviously, the main priority of these countries is to avert a war that would threaten the resources on which their economies depend...
Often they don't. It's amazing how frequently the content of ads and the stories scheduled to appear next to them threaten to conflict or to evoke unintended responses from readers. Quiggle and Strianse have become expert at avoiding the juxtaposition of, say, an air-disaster story and an airline ad. They know that liquor ads do not keep easy company with stories on religious fundamentalists. When a conflict arises, the ad is usually moved. But sometimes things slip through. Both Quiggle and Strianse are still talking about the week they allowed an advertisement for pen-and-pencil sets...