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What is lost when heroes vanish? Henry David Thoreau (a man who would have been at home in 1968) wrote an enigmatic throwaway line in Walden: "I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse and a turtle dove, and am still on their $ trail." The words, vaguely allegorical and haunting, have something in common with Paul Simon's "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?" One has only to inspect the field of presidential candidates in 1988 to feel a sense of some hero loss in the drama of American life...
...THINGS during the past seven years of Reagan gave this liberal more joy than watching the president's second Supreme Court nominee--selected precisely because of his lack of a substantive past--vanish in a puff of smoke. I relished every minute as the president hoisted himself on his own anti-drug, anti-crime petard. Thanks to Reagan's demagoguery, another bitter Senate confrontation battle was avoided...
DESPITE the media's infatuation with journals published by dissident poets, glasnost has provided little reason to believe that ideological differences between the superpowers are likely to vanish in the near future...
...deadline imposed by Washington, aims at creating nothing less than the world's largest open market. If the tentative accord wins the approval of the U.S. Congress and the Canadian Parliament, all tariffs and many other restrictions that impede the flow of goods and services between the countries will vanish by 1999. President Reagan called the agreement an "important model for other nations seeking to improve their trading relationships." To Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, it was simply a "good deal...
...Hess's case, the cage will also vanish. The four wartime Allies announced last week that Spandau would be demolished to keep it from becoming a shrine for Nazi sympathizers. Britain, which administers the sector of West Berlin that includes Spandau, plans to build a supermarket and an entertainment center on the site. The new facilities will cater to the 4,000 British service members and their families whose presence in West Berlin remains one of the legacies of Hitler's thousand-year Third Reich...