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...could lead to war. Part of the problem is that large segments of the European body politic have gone limp; much public opinion and political leadership too seem to be turning naive or neurotic, or both. The U.S. has not helped by responding with a loud voice and a tin ear. Before President Reagan's widely hailed speech last week, his bellicose anti-Soviet rhetoric and willful insensitivity even to legitimate Western European concerns often made it easier for Leonid Brezhnev to find an audience for his siren's song...
...loyal, even loving. His eyes widen in horror when he murders, and he clearly suffers with his victims. He hardly possesses the strength to pull a trigger, but he kills senselessly. Not even an adolescent, he displays the weariness of a 60-year-old. Not since The Tin Drum has there been so unchildlike a child in film...
...Lyon, it traveled the French National Railroads' regular tracks at conventional speed (max: 100 m.p.h.). In the comfortable, soundproofed cars, the only noises were the quiet hiss of air conditioning, the strains of Chopin-and the popping of champagne corks. Then, at Saint-Floren-tin, came the announcement: "We are entering the new section of track. Our speed will be 260 kilometers [162 miles] per hour...
...Mexicans closest to their nation's oil wealth, yet least likely to receive a share of it. Those living outside Coatzacoalcos, an oil boom town, complain bitterly about the arrogance of PEMEX, which can unilaterally expropriate their land. They say that the sulfur in the air corrodes the tin roofs of their shacks, and that their cows have died from drinking contaminated water. The land has become less fertile, with crop yields declining by as much as 30 per cent...
...years, people have brought their jokes and guitars to this part of Cambridge, making a tin can or a hat available for generous pedestrians. Over the past several months, however, the Square has become nothing short of a free-form carnival; performers attract crowds anywhere they can find a little open space, on weekday as well as weekend evenings...