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...wants you to fear the notably all-male demonstrators. You Harvard students who decided the fate of the Black man in America. You who determine policies for the poor; who can salvage affirmative action. You who can save America from Black wrath. Farrakhan is leading his troops to the battlefront--and their message is nothing less than a political ultimatum. Blacks, increasingly on the losing side in Washington debates, are fearful of the elimination of the American welfare state which they prize so greatly...
...morning, South Korean President Kim Young Sam paid tribute to Americans who gave their lives during the Korean War. "On behalf of the Korean people, I would like to take this opportunity to pay my respects to the memory of those young Americans who sacrificed their lives onKorea's battlefront," he said. Some 27 members of Congress are Korean War veterans. The South Korean leader singled out New York Democrat Charles Rangel by name. Pledging to pursue Korean unification, Kim noted that vigorous Asia-Pacific economic growth could only be maintained by a "long-term" U.S. military presence in Asia...
...word "liberal" is a progressive one with a long and proud history in this country and, by refusing to carry its standard high, the representatives of the Democratic Party are doing a disservice to all those who have fought on the legislative front, the legal front, and even the battlefront to establish its ideals...
Expertly crosscut with Wade's life is a series of chapters called "Evidence" into which O'Brien throws psychological theories, passages of presidential biography, even accounts of battlefront atrocities in 1776. Here are quotations from Dostoyevsky and George Sand; selections from The Magician's Handbook and the Nuremberg Principles; an item about the 30,000 people who go missing every year. Thus, for example, as we travel deeper into Wade's battlefront memories, we are also given hard-and-fast, nonfiction testimony from the men who perpetrated the My Lai massacre. The "Evidence" chapters broaden the book's focus...
...better idea of the capabilities of its allies in the South than its enemies to the North. But Washington is in the dark about how % well the North might attack. Virtually all the military analysts studying the battlefront acknowledge that hard information about the quality of Pyongyang's forces is scanty. "Compared to North Korea, the former Soviet Union was a duck-soup intelligence target," notes a Pentagon's analyst. "Here, we just don't know much...