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Secession is a fighting word in American history, and territorial aggrandizement has been anathema to the North American political experiment ever since the settlers reached the Pacific. They had left behind two systems of government that have brought grief as well as benefit to mankind: empire and the nation-state. Imperialism, which has been around for millenniums, is based on one people's conquering, ruling, often suppressing others. The nation-state, an arrangement that came into its own in the 16th century as the Holy Roman Empire began to disintegrate, sounded like a good idea at the time: people...
...past several months, readers and publishers have been mourning the end of the cold war. Fine for the future of mankind, of course, but it means curtains for that sturdy subindustry, the espionage thriller. Goodbye to the Berlin Wall? A bitter thought. And what of double agents? No one still believes their entrapments occurring in the Middle East, where messages are not coded but exploded...
...GURU? Fans of harmonic convergences and the like have been noting Mikhail Gorbachev's frequent use of phrases associated with the new age movement, that mystical, universalist philosophy that preaches, as the Soviet President does, of the need for "a new world order." As he said in California: "All mankind is entering a new age, and world trends are beginning to obey new laws and logic." More strikingly, he held a private meeting in Canada earlier in the week with one of the leading gurus of the new age movement, Sri Chinmoy, who read him a "spiritual song" and gave...
...company's emphasis on environment reflects MacCready's most passionate concern. "My goal," he says, "is to have mankind reach a comfortable accommodation with the flora, fauna and resources of the earth. And that requires equilibrium after a while, not population increase, not consumption of irreplaceable resources, and certainly not wiping out all the flora and fauna as we are now doing...
...past. And a great deal has been done to make that really happen. We have started to build a relationship on a new basis. We've agreed that the disputes between us can be resolved and, furthermore, that those disputes are less significant than the new challenges that confront mankind. As a result, a process of actually reducing nuclear and conventional arms has become possible and is now under way. Regional conflicts have become a subject on which we can work constructively together...