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...even conservative ones?have yielded to the temptation to demonstrate their peaceful intentions the easy way, by pretending to be reining in a bellicose and insensitive U.S. through their ministrations. As a result, among those who shape public attitudes?and thereby set what become the limits of the politically possible???there is less intellectual or philosophical agreement than in any previous period...
...achieving this, many analysts believe, would be to make . the current Soviet offensive in Afghanistan as difficult as possible???in short, help it become the Kremlin's version of America's Viet Nam. While the problems that would be faced by Soviet troops fighting in a country just across the Soviet border could hardly equal those confronting G.I.s embattled 10,000 miles from the U.S. (to say nothing of the Soviet regime's ability to crush all domestic antiwar criticism), the Afghanistan adventure could become more than Moscow bargained for. One thing the U.S. could do, suggests Dimitri Simes...
...only one idea in my life?a true idée fixe. To put it as bluntly as possible???the idea of having my own way. 'Control' expresses it. The control of human behavior. In my early experimental days it was a frenzied, selfish desire to dominate. I remember the rage I used to feel when a prediction went awry. I could have shouted at the subjects of my experiments, 'Behave, damn you! Behave as you ought...
...refugees who had fled to the cities for safety. Moreover, they totally misjudged the mood of the South Vietnamese. Believing their own propaganda, the Communists called for and expected a popular uprising to welcome the raiders as liberators. Nothing approaching that myth occurred anywhere in Viet Nam, with the possible???and as yet unverified?exception of some residents of Hu?...
...calling signals in the huddle. "In the pressure of the game," explains Parseghian, "you don't have time to listen to somebody yell '32' and ponder which hole is the three hole and which back is the two back. We just describe our plays in the most accurate way possible???like 'power sweep right,' or 'belly sweep left.' And we haven't had a badly busted play all season...