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...likelihood, events will not force Carter to make good on that pledge in the near future. That should not lull Americans into ignoring the meaning of this latest application of the "Carter doctrine." It means that, should this week's war or future tumults threaten the oil pipeline from the Persian Gulf, Carter will send in the Navy, the Air Force and--if necessary--the Army. It means that, even though world oil supplies will become inadequate within two or three decades with the best possible supply situation, Carter believes it is worth fighting today to preserve this phantom...
...thing that has sustained Carter through his time of leadership has been his personal appeal, a good man struggling to get experience against impossible odds and sinister forces. Now he seems to threaten that very icon of decency that he has created with such labor. He has turned away for the moment from his old friend St. Mark: "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul...
...possible. Indeed, the Turkish constitution authorizes the military to step in whenever the security of the state is in jeopardy. As their repeated warnings to the government indicated, Evren and his colleagues were anything but eager to take over. They were aware that a suspension of parliamentary government would threaten vital economic aid from the West and that military rule might even encourage further terrorist activity...
ANDREI BELGRADER'S As You Like It takes the aggressively self-confident stance that no one--not Shakespeare, not his audiences, certainly not today's audiences--could or can stomach pastoral. This production gleefully aims groin-kicks at each of the text's literary conventions, until their prone bodies threaten to outnumber the actors on stage. Whether Belgrader remains faithful to some indeterminate "author's intentions" or in fact manhandles the play for his own purposes, the final product impartially communicates the matter of Shakespeare's discourse on love, while obliquely making its own points. A deft maneuver...
...missing are dead or will return. "The suspense is unbearable--if I knew M. were dead I would mourn and try to forget. But this way I don't know if I should entertain hope," one mother said. "And the government refuses to tell me anything. They just threaten me, saying I'll put my life in danger if I investigate further...