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...spirited parliamentary showdown, in vivid contrast to the drab sessions of the recent past, brought to a swift end the political malaise of el desencanto -the disenchantment-that has gripped Spain in the past year. The Suárez government, after shepherding the country through a euphoric and successful post-Franco transition, has seemed increasingly bogged down by the intractable problems of 16% inflation, 10% unemployment and the stubborn wave of separatist terrorism. The partial autonomy recently granted to the provinces of Catalonia and the Basque country has similarly failed to diminish their regional resentment against Madrid. Stung...
...their lives fighting Communists pro patria at Khe Sanh when the President of the U.S. would be drinking friendship toasts in Peking and Moscow? Such a morally double-jointed approach to enemies seemed, simplistically but understandably, to be corrupt and treacherous. In addition, the blank finality of nuclear superpower showdown inherently reduces all military endeavor on the dogface level to a humiliating and horrible insignificance; prospective nuclear war, the big bang of the world's demise, also damages an idea crucial to the concept of military service to one's country: the notion of social continuity, of life...
...squad will lose Desaulniers, Stubbs, Blake, second-slotted George Bell and seventh-ranked Clark Bain to graduation. All five seniors posted solid wins in the Crimson's most crucial match, the Hemenway Gym showdown with Penn the weekend after the upending of Princeton...
...self-certified geopolitician--wonder where he got that from?--has set himself too lofty a task to dwell on past squabbles. He is warning us against ourselves, hoping against hope that we will slough off our guilt, indecision and blithe good nature and gear ourselves for the ultimate showdown at the OK Corral. After all, we are told...
Translation: Backe got word that he was under scrutiny and demanded an explanation from Paley. The showdown situation turned into an executive shootout on the 35th floor of the CBS Building. Says one industry source: "It wasn't even gentlemanly. It was a real showdown...