U.S. AND CHINA ENGAGE IN DUEL OF MISPERCEPTIONS
One thing you can say about China: Despite all the finesse of her ancient culture and art, she sure doesn't waste any of that historical delicacy on foreign policy. In...
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RUSSIAN BRUTALITY IN CHECHNYA BARELY NOTED IN U.S.
First came the terrible, plaintive questions from the mouths of the Chechens bombed and burned out of their cities by the proud Russian army. "Why does the world sit with...
UN, NATO, U.S. HOLD TO INSANE RULES IN KOSOVO
After the disturbing events of the past two weeks in Kosovo, I can now with total confidence reveal some of the rules by which NATO, the United Nations and the...
`BARTER’ GIVES A CHILLING GLIMPSE OF THE NEW RUSSIA
If you want to know what the "new Russians" under president-in-waiting Vladimir Putin are really like, consider the grave warning of Andrei Babitsky's case. This 36-year-old Moscow journalist was relentless....
IN INDIA, POPULATION BOMB IS TICKING AWAY
Taking a population tour throughout India's not-so-huddled masses today, I learn of a statistic that could make all the other ominous warnings of overpopulation here fade in comparison: According to...
INDIA’S SYSTEMS MAY COLLAPSE UNDER WEIGHT OF POPULATION
In New Delhi and the other great cities of the subcontinent, when people talk about "the road," they shake their heads. A sense of awe, bordering on horror, inevitably soon...
CHILE: LEFT AND RIGHT PARTIES ARE STARTING TO MOVE TOWARD THE CENTER
Somewhere along the way, somebody got the story wrong. It would seem, from the coverage of Chile today, that the big story is Gen. Augusto Pinochet's possible return to Chile...
BRADLEY’S PASSION FOR IDEAS NEEDS VISION
How would each of the four candidates actually govern? That small consideration, of course, rarely comes up in the analyses and coverage of the political campaigns now so noisily under...
SPREADING THE AMERICAN DEVELOPMENTAL GOSPEL
You can think about leaving the 20th Century this week in absolute terms, such as its dark impulse toward totalitarian solutions or the welcome transformation today toward widespread democracy and...
PALESTINIANS’ CONTINUED HOPES FOR A REAL STATE ARE DIM
Suddenly, out of the stalemate and impasse of the sinuous "peace process" here, came the Syrian surprise. Israelis and Syrians would resume the talks that closed nearly four years ago--and...