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...Philippines by cancelling his trip. Coating the decision with soothing language, they would say, merely makes it an easier pill for Marcos to swallow; given the existence of two key U.S. military bases on the Philippines and Marcos' unflinching support for Washington, maintaining the status quo is a valid priority. And besides, they would add as an afterthought, echoing Machiavelli and Tallyrand, morality has no place in U.S. policy. The president does what has to be done for reasons of state...
...DEFENSE OF his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, which had offended Victorian moral sensibilities Oscar Wilde wrote that no work of art is either moral or immoral, it is simply more or less artistically valid. Works of fiction, Wilde continued, ought not to be used as vehicles for morality. On the contrary, the writer should view morality as merely one of the materials out of which to create his new world. Wilde compared morality to a single color on an artist's palette...
...Official George Carver, now a fellow at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies. "But let's not be diverted by fine legal minutiae. They had absolutely no right to commit murder." Experts in international law say the families and countries of victims may have valid claims for damages, but no one expects the Soviets to ever pay restitution...
...thinks "the media have tried to portray what we think are the bad guys, the Communists, as Robin Hoods." Her office predicts that Reagan will be proved as correct as Churchill was in the 1930s, and his critics as discredited as Neville Chamberlain. To make such an analogy valid, the country's survival would have to be equally at risk, and the public would have to be convinced that Reagan has not inflated, wrongly identified and sometimes inflamed the problems of Central America...
...green with envy over Britain's North Sea petroleum windfall and has searched vainly for its own bonanza. Lately, though, Dublin has been awash in a gusher of speculation about a discovery in the Celtic Sea, which separates Ireland and Britain. Last week the rumors proved to be valid. Gulf Oil acknowledged that a test well only 20 miles south of the Waterford coast had produced a flow that suggests a sizable field. The early results, said Junior Energy Minister Eddie Collins, "are very encouraging indeed." The mood on the Dublin and London stock markets resembled an Irish wake...