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...spite of all these compelling arguments for not going in, the Kremlin might ultimately decide that it has no choice. Indeed, according to a Western intelligence report, Brezhnev himself had to break a deadlock in the Politburo to block a Soviet decision to invade Poland last December. Last week's decision to give the Polish leadership another reprieve was also thought to have been adopted only after a fierce debate in the Kremlin. Reliable reports reaching Whitehall, TIME has learned, indicate that the case in favor of intervention was made by hard-line Party Ideologue Mikhail Suslov, supported...
...little more than a week ago, the Harvard Rugby team--in spite of its reputation as one of the best teams in the Northeast--had not been invited to the Collegiate East Coast Rugby Championships, held this past weekend at Blacksburg...
...there were even more basic feelings brought out by Mon day's events. Trust, for one thing: the belief that in spite of all the initial misinformation, the facts would eventually be known. Patience, for another; and a general absence of panic. Faith in science, as the doctors were relied on to tell the country what its future looked like. Faith in God, for those who have it. Faith too in the press, remarkably; the same press that is excoriated as a matter of daily habit, still counted on in a real emergency to get the truth as best...
Despite the change of musical pace, the guitar plays the same role in the remake of? and the Mysterians' 1960s hit, "96 Tears," which Jeffreys endows with more vigor and spite than? ever mustered. Throughout these songs' changing moods, his voice assumes a stance recalling James Dean; compassionate, yet aloof; willing to take risks, encounter disappointment, and give his all again...
Arguing that Marshner sees today's society and religion much more static than it is. Deats asked if "a living God" should "stop talking to Christians" in spite of widespread societal changes since Biblical times...