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Unlike the Chinese, Americans of the '50s were spared the curse of living in interesting times. Which may be why David Halberstam, prizewinning journalist and best-selling social chronicler, simply calls the period transitional, a truism that could apply to any decade. Likewise, his thesis that events of the '50s set the stage for the '60s, '70s and beyond is as safe as it once was to invest...
...overkill of coverage was so immense that they literally started counting the cows twice, that when you have huge amounts of data coming in, it's very easy to lose count as simply as that. But the failure of common sense is absolutely weird in its stupidity. Any good journalist who'd been living in Moscow in the later years of Brezhnev would know that nothing worked anymore. The knight was dying inside his armor, and somehow that human perception never made itself felt in intelligence analyses...
...dirty cold war espionage battles in the middle of Europe have eased dramatically. "The information river is westbound now," says a former officer of the Czechoslovak security forces who is now a private consultant in Prague. "Until 1988, Polish agents were trained in Moscow," says Jerzy Jachowicz, a Warsaw journalist who covers intelligence matters. "Now they are trained in the U.S., France and Britain." That new westward orientation was emphasized last month when Woolsey paid official visits to his counterparts in Warsaw, Prague and Budapest...
Hata's background is typical of the blue-suit mainstream of the Liberal Democrats. The son of a journalist turned L.D.P. legislator, he worked for 10 years as a tour guide and planner for a bus company in Tokyo. His hometown of Ueda, west of Tokyo, is where he likes to claim that he learned his "sensitivity for ordinary people, and what they really want from politics." Like many current L.D.P. legislators, Hata entered politics by taking over his father's seat and rose through the ranks by avoiding mistakes...
...Barre and for his military successes on behalf of his clan. His anti-U.N. and -U.S. radio addresses sparked a vigorous response: riots convulsed Mogadishu twice in the past five months. "He is a war criminal whose indiscriminate shelling of civilians contributed to many deaths," said a Somali journalist. "But he is a very strong clan leader, and the U.N. attacks have made him even more important as a spokesman for the Somalis against foreign aggression...