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More important, however, the normalization requires the abrogation of Washington's 1954 Mutual Defense Treaty with Taiwan, and many key Senators were dismayed that the U.S. had won no promise from Peking not to regain Taiwan by force. Their concern was especially germane in light of the current Chinese invasion of Viet Nam. Conservative members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee demanded that the enabling legislation for the opening of relations include a strong reassertion of U.S. guarantees to protect Taiwan. For a time, they thought they had the support of both Committee Chairman Frank Church and ranking Republican...
...invading Viet Nam, Peking clearly intended to regain some lost prestige and prove it is no paper tiger. The invasion also presumably had a tactical goal: drawing Vietnamese troops away from Cambodia in order to ease the pressure on Pol Pot's surviving forces. But the risks involved in the Viet Nam invasion were far greater than those involved in the border war with India. Besides a possible Soviet retaliation that could come at any time, China already has suffered a political setback in world eyes. The Japanese, who joined them in decrying "hegemony" when they signed a treaty with...
...what makes the film work, at least at the pop-fairy-tale level, is the reality principle. The plot is improbable: the girl is left blind by injuries sustained in a bad fall, then begins a long, painful but ultimately successful struggle to regain her sight and skills. Yet the film is kept firmly grounded in plausible, recognizable territory by the realistic detailing in Donald Wrye's direction, the authentic tone of the dialogue and the straightforward work of an excellent cast. Tom Skerritt as the skater's father, reluctant to let her go, and her first coach...
...much as anyone alive to lead career military officers into the labyrinth of moral questions that have come out of Viet Nam. Ethics is taught in many forms in service academies and postgraduate institutions. But Stockdale wants to create a model specifically designed to help the military "regain our bearings." Says he: "Today's ranks are filled with officers who have been weaned on slogans and fads of the sort preached in the better business schools-that rational managerial concepts will cure all evils. This course is my defense against the buzzword-nomograph-acronym mentality...
...again, Cauthen may need to regain his almost mystical touch, the energy he seemed to communicate to horses through his skilled oversize hands. Then again, ex-Agent Goodman may have the best prescription: "Fast horses...