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...past: her family's and China's. In her uncle Jieu Jieu, the wise peasant who boasts an "unwashable brain," Lord sees the best aspects of the masses in whose name the Chinese revolution was waged. Supremely pragmatic, Jieu Jieu never bought Chairman Mao's line that the Great Leap Forward of the 1950s would instantly catapult China into the ranks of industrialized countries. On the other hand, Lord broods over the dilemma of an elderly scholar whose Western education made him an outcast in a society that he resentfully characterizes as "of the peasant, by the peasant...
...reforms. The Soviet republics are beginning to snap the political and economic bonds linking them to the once all-powerful center in Moscow. With the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia in the vanguard, some of the imprisoned peoples are battering the outside walls and intend to leap to freedom. It now seems certain that the center cannot hold onto all 15 republics. What was unthinkable only a few months ago has now become reality: the largest country in the world is on the brink of shrinking. Politics in the U.S.S.R. has turned into a race between the republics...
...basis, most of the background details about Harvard and the American economic and political scenes are true to life. This verisimultude is perhaps what makes the novel most enjoyable, and most frightening. Though none of the outrageous events charted in this book ever happened, the readers need take no leap of faith to imagine them actually occurring...
...expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. This can be accomplished by having the Navy buy fast sea-lift ships that could transport U.S.-based soldiers to Europe in a crisis. The Air Force, similarly, should keep a powerful force of attack aircraft that could leap overseas on short notice. In addition, the military should maintain supply depots in Europe . stocked with tanks, artillery and ammunition...
...step was a huge psychological leap for the National Party. But, acknowledges Roelf Meyer, Deputy Minister for Constitutional Development, "there is no chance of a legitimate process of negotiations if only three- quarters of the players are around the table." Adds Education Minister Stoffel van der Merwe: "Mr. de Klerk has fully accepted that blacks, whoever they are, have a right to participate...