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Many of us still hope to overcome the multitude of difficulties that besiege us by our usual method -- by means of force, this time ordered by a President empowered to do so. Such is the dramatic and even tragic nature of the present situation: instead of moving ahead toward doing away with the empire, we have become like rabbits transfixed before a boa constrictor. All we are doing is returning to an age of centralization and dictatorship -- this time in the form of the presidency, since the President of a disintegrating Soviet Union can only emerge as its dictator...
...Intifada began because the land that was open to the Palestinians 23 years ago now has to be avoided by them," Shahak said. He added that the Intifada is a democratic organization with the "tragic aim of changing the society internally...
Leroy Keith, president of Morehouse College, last night urged positive action to improve the "tragic situation" of the Black male in American society...
...next day Gorbachev was outwardly composed as he delivered his opening address, but participants detected a quaver of tension in his voice. It was not his purpose, he said, "to dramatize the situation and impart a tragic character" to the fateful decisions facing the plenum, but "the party will be able to fulfill its mission as a political vanguard only if it drastically restructures itself, masters the art of political work in present conditions and succeeds in cooperating with all forces committed to perestroika." No burst of thunderous applause greeted the end of his hour-long speech. After enduring...
...Another tragic example of the fiscal myopia of the Reagan era is the paucity of investment in America's future economic health, by way of improvements in human resources and physical infrastructure. Between 1984 and 1986, while military spending grew 13 percent, government spending for economic programs (including transportation and civilian research and development) declined by 0.6 percent, and federal funding for education declined by 1.8 percent...