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While all these words were being lofted, the existing "little wars" of the world???the ones in Afghanistan, Iran-Iraq, Northern Ireland, Cambodia, Namibia, Chad, Ethiopia-Somalia, Guatemala and El Salvador?were joined by two more. The coincidence is noteworthy. After the invasion of Lebanon, an editorial in the New York Times declared: "There is no point wailing about what might have been." Possibly. But that palliative countermands all the earlier sage advice proffered by that selfsame publication, and by this one and by every other voice that lobs words against tanks. The P.L.O. could have forsworn terrorism with words...
...nation that satisfies his loose definition of a bastion against Communism. No longer are close allies considered the best buyers. The most cultivated customers, both for the Soviets and the Western powers, are developing countries. More than $18.3 billion in major weapons were delivered last year to the Third World??? compared with $8 billion in 1975?and contracts were signed for $41 billion in future deliveries. Total economic aid to developing countries by industrialized countries averages around $20 billion a year...
Such things now seem within man's reach through the commercial adaptation of gene splicing, or recombinant DNA (for deoxyribonucleic acid). It is a genie capable of transforming the world???a genie that, scientists hope, the world will never want to put back into the bottle...
SPECIAL PROJECT THE BELIEF IN AN ever better tomorrow, the conviction that obstacles exist to be overcome and that the U.S. has a strong and beneficial role to play in the world???these constitute the American secular religion...
...since the late '60s. Only Nixon's muck-up could have delayed their eventual birth and triumph. Sick and tired of the vast, clogged federal machine; sick and tired of being broke; fed up with useless programs, crime, waste, guilt; not to mention shame in the eyes of the world???derision from our enemies, dismay from our allies?fed up with all that, and to put a fine point on it, fed up with Jimmy Carter, what else would the nation do but hang a right...