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...scenario has not come true, we can thank Orwell for his insights. In this age of MX missiles and nuclear freeze, Orwell has put the situation in perspective. He was so correct when he wrote, "In politics, one can never do more than decide which of two evils is lesser, and there are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic...
...every retired aerospace engineer and psychiatrist owned a golden patch of vineyard. Between 1978 and 1982, the Napa Valley alone gave birth to 50 new wineries; 47 started up in adjoining Sonoma County. Just as the new production was reaching the stores, European wines, most notably Italian and lesser-known French vintages, came on the market in increasing volume and at sensible prices. Last year U.S. wine sales went as flat as morning-after champagne. Impact, a reliable industry newsletter, projects that per capita consumption of California wine will increase at the sluggish rate of .7% annually through...
...message to those of us plebes who are watching: "We still have our handkerchiefs and our standards, and don't doubt for a minute that we still have our power too." Handkerchief-waving is in the spirit of the Harvard cheer held in readiness for losses to lesser schools than Yale: "That's all right, that's okay. You're going to work for us some...
...verbal barbs were aimed at a new "strategic cooperation" agreement between the U.S. and Israel worked out during a three-day visit to Washington by Shamir and his top aides. Although the details need to be ironed out in future meetings between lesser officials of both nations, the package of military aid and trade concessions places Israel back in the forefront of U.S. policy in the Middle East, at the calculated risk of upsetting the moderate Arab states. As such, it was an abrupt shift in the Administration's Middle East policy, which had stressed U.S. efforts to play...
Even as they rejected the deal that their negotiator had privately endorsed, the Soviets began positioning themselves to make a series of lesser, primarily cosmetic concessions. Their hope was that by demonstrating flexibility every few months, they could induce the West Europeans to postpone deployment in order to give the negotiations a chance. Then, by dragging out the extended negotiations, the Soviets could make postponement tantamount to cancellation...