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Surely one of the bitterest, most poignant tolls of the war was taken simply on the 2.7 million Americans who fought there. If the majority of them performed bravely and well???and they did?their sacrifices were somehow tragically diminished by the very ambiguity of the war, its often enraging purposelessness. At its very worst, that frustration produced My Lai and other less celebrated atrocities. The fraternity of Viet Nam veterans faced the additional frustration of returning with neither honor nor glory to the nation they were supposedly "defending." The experience is especially bitter for those thousands who came back...
...jail for anti-Soviet thinking. He is a freethinking man in many ways." Some of his freest thoughts are about chess. "I would be the happiest man alive if I were no longer world champion," says Boris. "Since I won the title my whole life has?well???stiffened. I like to play chess for fun and not fame, and my idea of a pleasant evening is to share some wine with friends and play chess...
Black Anger. But the war complicated things as well???not least because Israel was victorious beyond all expectation. Some Jews, especially younger ones, had trouble adjusting to the image of the Jew as conqueror. Those in the New Left found it possible to assail Israel as the new upperdog and to defend the underdog Palestinian guerrillas with Jerry Rubin's phrase, "Right on, Al Fatah!" The chorus was joined by black militants, who now hurled epithets at the very Jews who had first marched with them in civil rights protests. The blacks' anger, overtly against Israel, at least partly reflected...
Whatever the regime's record abroad may be, however, the fact is that Soviet leaders do not rise and fall on foreign policy issues but on the economy. The present leadership has done fairly well???but not well enough. Soviet agriculture, which employs about 26% of the work force v. less than 2% in the U.S., has picked up considerably and the Soviets have not had to buy wheat abroad for two years; but there are still shortages of meat, fruit and fresh vegetables. Industry is lagging badly. Technological advance is falling even farther behind the West. The consumer remains...
Psychoanalyst Irving Bieber of New York Medical College says that men and women are very different genetically, and points out that the exact degrees of difference have yet to be determined. Both Bieber and Fox?and Clinical Psychologist Wardell Pomeroy as well???dispute Millett's argument that the family's chief function is to perpetuate the prescribed patriarchal attitudes. "That's another one of her sweeping generalizations," says Fox. "To assume that the situation is perpetuated by male conspiracy is to ignore the genetic basis." The real issue, says Fox, "is whether male and female roles are totally flexible...