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...company that feels pressure to break ranks will destroy whatever discipline the airlines might have," says TIME senior economic writer John Greenwald. The competitive price climate is good news for consumers' pocketbooks, but it could further erode matters on the service front. The cheaper fares are meant to attract more passengers -- and that, says Greenwald, means "that somewhat more affordable ride will probably translate into more cramming into increasingly uncomfortable planes...
...cold war fairy tale, colored by the moods of our age of therapy: Once upon a time, a boy's idealistic young father was set upon by an ogre who hid under the bridge, Whittaker Chambers (fat, neurotic, with bad teeth and a sick man's mysterious need to destroy), a former communist agent who told congressional investigators that Hiss transmitted government documents to him between...
...manifest inability of NATO to read a Belgrade street map or phone book (lemme see, would it be under E for embassy or C for China?) to a certain overall Ben Tre logic (named for the Vietnamese town about which an American officer said, "It became necessary to destroy the town in order to save it"), and drifting further on to an even deeper moral obtuseness...
...NATO to send 50,000 ground troops to the region, either to escort the Kosovars home with Milosevic's assent or to threaten an invasion without it. The war could succeed faster if the allies risked their own troops more, but political leaders fear the first body bags would destroy the public support they need to keep the confrontation going. But the slow and uncertain progress from 12,000 ft. is eating away at popular approval anyhow. Pit that against the prospect that if the air strikes fail to move Milosevic, ground troops might have to step in, and what...
Hitler was convinced that by blitzing London he would destroy Britain's will to fight. Now NATO has decided it can help the Kosovars by bombing Serbia. Do leaders ever learn from history? ANDRZEJ DERKOWSKI Oakville...