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...economies of some republics. And in Moscow, Communist conservatives have seized on the Russians' plight to justify a crackdown on the nationalist movements. News reports in the capital deliver a crude subtext: ethnic Russians are the victims of nationalist extremists. Politburo members like Victor Chebrikov, former KGB chief, thunder that those whipping up ethnic strife "should not go unpunished, no matter what flags they raise and what brightly colored national costumes they wear...
...delay would mean the downfall of the government. He said that if necessary, Britain would "act on its own." When the Cabinet asked Chamberlain to pledge no further compromises, he said, "Right, gentlemen. This means war." As he spoke, one witness recalled, "there was the most enormous clap of thunder, and the whole Cabinet room was lit up by a blinding flash of lightning...
...such opportunity would be the Brussels meeting, and as Bush headed across the Atlantic, he considered springing an eye-catching arms-control proposal at the NATO summit that would not only steal some of Gorbachev's thunder but also, perhaps, help heal a deep rift within the Western alliance. In the words of one of its architects, it would be a "real attention getter": a reduction of up to 10% of the 340,000 U.S. troops in Europe, with corresponding cuts in NATO aircraft and helicopters, if the Soviets agree to reduce their conventional forces to the levels the West...
...this tripe the culmination of several thousand years of man's reflections? Let us all "say `No! in thunder," (Herman Melville) to Mick Jagger's "Sympathy for the Devil." Jagger and pop culture have better things to offer than what has been given to us here...
...terror arrives with the sound of rolling thunder and the flash of perpetual lightning. Hour after hour, petrified families huddle in basements and stairwells as booming howitzers rain shells over the city. For the 1.2 million residents of Beirut, the past month has been a living hell. Rival militias have relentlessly pounded the Muslim and Christian halves of Beirut, with shells tearing into houses, apartment buildings, schools and even hospitals. Ambulances careen through deserted streets scooping up bodies sliced by shrapnel. During early-morning lulls, men scurry out to buy increasingly scarce bread and bottled water. Then they stop...