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...individual wrongdoing designed to explain why Soviet central planners are unable to meet their goals. In the case of the factory that wasn't, Russians were inevitably reminded of the ruse employed by the 18th century courtier Grigori Potemkin, who erected false fronts on poverty-stricken villages in order to persuade Empress Catherine the Great that her realm was truly prosperous...
...talk about the need to defend their country from the pro-Moscow, Marxist regime in South Yemen. Nonetheless, the Saudis know that the Yemenis resent Riyadh's oil wealth, and that a number of South Yemenis were involved in the Mecca siege. They also know that unstable, poverty-stricken North Yemen could link up with South Yemen to form a menacing new radical state on the Arabian peninsula...
...tried in vain to return to my friends. I found myself unable to touch the ground, and swaying with the people pushed up next to me. Suddenly, I could not get any air. As hard as I tried, I could not get one breath in me. I became panic-stricken. People helped me, but I would not re-enter the stands, and I will never again attend a general-admission concert. When the eleven people died at the Who concert [Dec. 17], I remembered how awful my own experience was, and all I could...
...should be possible for Americans to preserve an intelligent sympathy for the Islamic perspective without feeling vaguely guilt-stricken by the past. Anti-Americanism-the specific, sharper focus of anti-Westernism-is in some ways the Islamic world's excuse for its own failures, confusions and periodic collapses into incoherence. It is more convenient morally to blame the West than to gaze steadily at the Islamic dilemma, easier to devise revenge for the past than ideas for the future. Khomeini, with his absolutist pretensions and aggressive fantasies of jihad (holy war) against the West, demeans Islam; he gives...
Well before noon on Christmas Day, horror-stricken adults will issue forth from every child-equipped house in the nation. They will be dismayed because they have seen the future. The future works, as it turns out, but only if they make a run for more batteries. Not, as in the good old days, a couple of 10? Evereadys, but bushels of expensive nine-volts, pecks of Penlites, and Cs and Ds in numbers beyond counting...