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...disbanding of the Aspri was a crowd-pleasing response to student protests that his aides were corrupt. But the villains of Suharto's wayang are not mere puppets. Each of the four wily generals is potentially a powerful political figure. They may now try to write a different scenario for the next Indonesian puppet show...
...libretto was a piece of hack work from a Parisian scenario factory run by an enterprising auteur of sorts named Eugene Scribe. Having just successfully completed Rigoletto and La Traviata with Italian Librettist Francesco Maria Piave, Verdi despised the messy French text with the passion he brought to everything...
Replete with dueling navies, commando landing parties and sinking vessels, the scenario that unfolded last week in the South China Sea recalled gunboat diplomacy of bygone years. The clash was between South Viet Nam and China over the 50 or so tiny, nearly uninhabited reefs, shoals and atolls that make up the Paracel archipelago, about 200 miles east of Viet Nam. For two days the fighting was intense, but the outcome was never in doubt. Chinese troops claimed the islands last week in the name of Chairman...
...That scenario, at least in its essentials, now appears destined to be repeated in Britain, although the denouement this time may be even more traumatic. The current dispute began last November when the country's 247,000 coal miners refused to work overtime until they received substantial wage increases. Then Heath declared a state of emergency, cut power to industry and businesses by 25%, and put the country on a three-day work week to conserve fuel. Last week the miners lashed back by calling for a vote to strike...
...author's "hopeful" scenario requires neither a new morality nor even a new lifestyle. Instead Corson prescribes a '70s revival of old-fashioned American character. Lots of hard work, lots of sacrifice. Like a native Stoic-a Marine Corps Marcus Aurelius- Corson sees no true alternative to doing one's duty abroad to the Third World and doing one's duty at home to the Other America of the poor and the disenfranchised. Nothing less can exorcise the failure of Viet...