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...political and ideological crisis has created a vacuum that can best be filled by new ideas and new institutions, not old ones. Therefore the centralized economy may yet move toward a form of "state capitalism," with competition among enterprises that resemble stockholder-owned corporations. Tough, intense bargaining may yet produce different solutions to different republics' needs and demands. The U.S.S.R. may become a new, diverse federation. Some republics will be run from Moscow; others will delegate only foreign and defense policy to the central government; and a few, notably the Baltics, will have "associated status," which gives them virtually complete...
...control have lost much of their authority: the schools, because so many are segregated, old and inferior; religion, which has become irrelevant to those who lost faith as they lost hope . . . the family, because its bonds are so often snapped. It is the policeman who must fill this institutional vacuum, and is then resented for the presence this effort demands...
...That, however, was as far as Washington and its allies were prepared to go in siding with the insurgency. Their fear is that if the central government loses its grip on Iraq, the resulting power vacuum will produce a storm of tumult, with the Shi'ites grabbing the south, the Kurds taking the north and neighboring Iran, Turkey and Syria slicing off bits and pieces of their own. Bush last week warned Tehran that invading Iraq would be "the worst thing it could...
...wheelchair onto the ramp and maneuvers it into the van. Once inside, his wheelchair locks into place and becomes the driver's seat. His right hand operates a horizontal steering wheel that takes almost no effort to turn; his left hand rests on a lever that activates a vacuum pump that in turn operates both the gas and brake controls. When the lever is pushed toward the window, the van accelerates; when it is pushed toward the center of the vehicle, the van brakes...
...said very responsibly, is "We can predict the outcome but not the blood costs, particularly; we know we can win, but we can't predict how long it will take; and we cannot predict the political relationships in the area after military action." There may be a power vacuum, there may be Arab against Arab, Arab against the U.S. Who knows...