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...achievement symbolized by the somber drama of a man on his knees: Brandt, on a freezing December day in Warsaw in 1970, before Poland's memorial to victims of World War II. Here was a German Chancellor making an act of atonement for his country's wrongs, a gesture that electrified the world. Brandt was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1971; he had been named TIME's Man of the Year a year earlier...
...needs. Yet generations of military thinkers have agreed that the best way to find out what kind of defense the country should have is to decide first on a national strategy. The strategy the U.S. needs has changed radically over the past three years, with the dissipation of the Warsaw Pact and then the Soviet Union, and that in turn could radically change the kind of military structure that is necessary...
...need for a nation-state to take the lead demonstrates the impotence of the current United Nations. This impotence was understandable during the Cold War, with the dominating and polarizing influence of NATO and the Warsaw Pact making only the most tepid action possible...
...this is happening, of course, because the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact no longer exist. In place of the devil we knew is a threat represented on the briefers' charts by an eerie phrase: THE UNKNOWN AND THE UNCERTAIN. Instead of preparing to fight World War III, the Pentagon is planning to deal with what the charts call MRCS, or major regional conflicts. The National Security Agency, which eavesdrops on real and potential enemies around the world, is retiring Russian speakers to make room for specialists in Farsi and Swahili. One of the few categories of procurement that...
Although the Polish government has signed an agreement with the Cambodian government to restore the temple, Warsaw is broke. The Poles have asked UNESCO for funds and have been turned down. The organization would like to see such bilateral efforts postponed until the overall environment can be stabilized. Even though there is a general understanding of the need for that approach, donor nations want a temple to restore and claim as their own. "Everyone wants to produce a before-and-after photograph," complains Engelhardt...