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Your Essay on the growing obsession with security among Americans could easily have extended its point to the Defense Department. Nowhere is there a more compulsive and irrational quest for security than in the military. Just as bodyguards make the guarded feel more insecure, our growing nuclear arsenal only increases...
The scene is Kuibyshev, a Russian industrial city on the Volga. Enter stage left the Soviet version of Gogol's greedy Inspector General. The inspector is put up in a luxurious little hotel on the picturesque banks of the Volga, especially built for the pleasure of inspectors and other...
To its 720,000 Palestinian inhabitants, the West Bank is the heart of their ancient homeland and of what the U.N. had intended to be a Palestinian state. Resentment of the Israeli military occupation is the common denominator among a wide political spectrum of groups, ranging from supporters of the...
Suddenly, the dispute that President Reagan once considered a "family" squabble is threatening to become an out-and-out row. On both sides, pride and principles are at stake. In Europe, it is a question of jealously guarded sovereignty and large contracts for industries plagued by unemployment. As the U.S...
Then why expect a boom? Kahn's broadest reason is apolitical: a slowing of population growth and a continuing rise in gross world product should mean that there will be more to go around. In the U.S., he offers the possibility of a $5 trillion gross national product in...