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...neo-Kennanist, Ulam believes that a fuzzy idealism fogs American objectives. He is surely correct in thinking that popular sentiments in a democratic state can have an important influence on policy decisions. But on the other hand, public opinion is largely molded by society's portrayal of facts. Often the interests, if not the motives, of people and government coincide. For example, Ulam chides the U.S. for her rigid anti-imperialism in the late forties. He blames it on idealism, on "the Americans' real incomprehension as to what the international order is or could be in this sinful and complex...
...list of aggressors seemingly refuses to stop: the French and Spanish in 1859, the Japanese in 1940, the French again in 1945 (Britain used defeated Japanese troops to restore French dominance over the area), and, finally, America secured for itself a neo-colonial presence following the collapse of France's effort to maintain direct colonial rule...
...ante. The scene is now the neo-Honeymooners apartment of Celia and her husband Phil (Simon Oakland), a retired master sargeant. Swede (Conrad Bain), an old army buddy, has just arrived and the two men are up to their elbows in cans of beer and talk of the army, the fights and other things that generally just aren't what they once used to be. Celia, a childless, tired woman, her hair--as described by her own mother--a gaudy "change-of-life red," tries to force the conversation to include herself. She gossips about the neighbors, laments the marriage...
...league-founded in 1968 by Rabbi Meir Kahane-has taken on neo-Nazis, allegedly anti-Semitic blacks and the Soviet persecution of Jews. It is most notorious for its harassment of Soviet diplomats in the U.S. (TIME, May 24). Kahane is currently out on five-year probation after pleading guilty to charges of conspiring to manufacture explosives. The camp is part of the league's program-originated in the poorer Jewish neighborhoods of New York City -to teach Jewish youths the fundamentals of self-defense at a time when threats to life and property seem to be ominously mounting...
...frustration prevailing in Italy's impoverished south was the situation in Catania, an industrial city at the foot of Mount Etna. Projected only a few years ago as the Milan of the south, the city today is overwhelmed by seemingly unsolvable credit difficulties. Voters there gave the neo-Fascists an impressive 21.5% of the vote. "It was a corrivo," said a worker. The word means "a boom of rage...