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...then recognize, if there's any celebration, it is a celebration of what has followed, that from the end of that war came this complete turnaround that has led now to 40 years of peace, plus our onetime enemies' being, you might say, our staunchest allies. Bitburg was picked because that is where there are German and American forces working together on the NATO line...
...Alvarezes' staunchest critics has been William Clemens, a paleontologist at the University of California, Berkeley. After systematically sampling parts of the eastern Montana area, he declared that the layer of iridium and the bones of the last surviving dinosaur were too far apart to share any meaningful connection. Besides, he asked, why should the mammals have survived any Cretaceous catastrophe? Says he: "If you're going to have a nuclear winter killing off the dinosaurs, why didn't it kill off everything else...
...Connor is a likely vote against abortion The staunchest defenders of the decision-Brennan, Marshall and Blackmun-are all at least 75 years old. "All of our guys are the old men," says Nanette Falkenberg, executive director of the National Abortion Rights Action League. The court, it would appear, is already primed for a switch; a single appointment might be all the shove that it needs. But even for a determinedly conservative court, reversing Roe would be a momentous step. Since so many women have relied on the decision, says Columbia's Blasi, to overturn it "would be Prohibition...
...support of the leftist rebels in El Salvador. More important, advocates of the contra effort point out that withdrawal of aid robs the Administration of a significant bargaining chip and leaves in the lurch those fighters who had come to rely on the U.S. But even Reagan's staunchest supporters now concede that the covert program could be coming to an end. "I have been here long enough to know what all these code words mean," said Republican John East of North Carolina. "It's over...
...delicate handling, however, the campaign is sputtering. Much of China's leadership remains an immovable object of orthodoxy. The staunchest Maoist loyalists are within the 4.2 million-strong People's Liberation Army, whose upper ranks have become a stagnant gerontocracy. The youngest of the nine men on the Central Military Commission is 70; three of its four vice chairmen, like Chairman Deng, have passed their 80th birthday. Even the People's Daily has been moved to complain that "some of our leading cadres are like document-reading machines, speaking rather than acting and just sitting there unless they...