A LONG L OF CELLS
Lewis Thomas has a theory that mankind is "going through the early stages of a species' adolescence. If we can. ..shake off the memory of this century. . . we may find ourselves off and running again." His optimism stems from the "high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell." From "that first micro- organism, parent of us all," man's development has mirrored the process that creates each of our bodies, with myriad cells replicat-...
Joseph LaPalombara
In March 1985, Bettino Craxi, then Italy's prime minister, visited Washington. President Ronald Reagan greeted him with a firm hand-shake and a (somewhat) facetious question: "How's your crisis going?" Craxi replied, "Very well, thank you."
No doubt his other NATO allies had asked Craxi, the Socialist Party leader, the same question. When Americans or Canadians or Germans think of Italy, many imagine a sunny, picturesque Mediterranean land- scape whose inhabitants...
In March 1985, Bettino Craxi, then Italy's prime minister, visited Washington. President Ronald Reagan greeted him with a firm hand-shake and a (somewhat) facetious question: "How's your crisis going?" Craxi replied, "Very well, thank you."
No doubt his other NATO allies had asked Craxi, the Socialist Party leader, the same question. When Americans or Canadians or Germans think of Italy, many imagine a sunny, picturesque Mediterranean land- scape whose inhabitants are in chronic...
into World War II and disaster.
There have been few, if any, dictators of the Right or Left in our century whose rise to power owed more to the myopia of democratic statesmen and plain citizens. Mussolini's fall from power was as dramatic as his ascent, and the Fascist era merits our reflections today.
Many younger Americans may think of Mussolini only as actor Jack Oakie portrayed him in Charlie Chaplin's classic 1940 film, The Great Dictator: a rotund, strutting clown, who struck pompous poses...
the Mediterranean and the awesome barrier of the Alps, four-fifths of the territory consists of mountains and hills. Not only the great Alpine arc, sweeping west to east from the Mediterranean to the Adriatic, but. . . the Apennines, stretching . . . down the length of Italy. ..set per- manent barriers to the possibilities of cultivation."
So writes Stuart Woolf in A History of Italy, 1700-1860 (Methuen, 1979). Indeed, it was the diversity of Ita- ly's physical and climatic characteristics...
Paul West, in Governing (Jan. 1988), 1414 22nd St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037.
Many U.S. presidential candidates-and presidents-have been state gov- ernors. West, a Baltimore Sun correspondent, notes that many sitting governors, including Thomas E. Dewey, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Nelson Rockefeller, "attempted to use their states as laboratories in gearing up to run for national office, with obviously mixed results." Our last two presi- dents have been former governors; Democrat Jimmy...
Congress to the states in 1972, the amendment had been approved 33 state legislatures by 1974. Progress was slow thereafter. The ERA finally died on June 30, 1982, three states short of the 38 needed for ratification.
Bolce, De Maio, and Muzzio, all political scientists at Baruch College, fmd that public support for the ERA fell steadily during the decade that it was considered for ratification by the states.
Surveys by the Center for Political Studies show that 73 percent of the public supported...
1980, the majority supporting ERA had "vanished entirely." After the federal amendment died, many states that ratdied the ERA in the early 1970s-such as New York and Wisconsin-later reflected this collapse of popular support rejecting state Ems of their own. Public opinion in the states that rejected ERA, the authors conclude, "seems unlikely to shift in favor of the amendment in the near future."
"Ike and Hu-oshima: Did He Oppose It?" by Bar-
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Anthony Samp-son, in Regardie's (Dec. 1987), 1010 Wisconsin Ave. N.W., Ste. 600, Washington, D.C. 20007.
Many American politicians argue that U.S. corporations should sell off their South African subsidiaries. "Our country is implicated in the terrible system that blights South Africa," says Senator Edward Kennedy (D.-Mass.). "Our corporations have benefited from the apartheid economy."
Sampson, British author of The Seven Sisters and The Changing Anatomy of Britain, argues...
Dick Armey, in Policy
se Review (Winter 1988), Heritage Foundation,
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Located in an inhospitable comer of northern Maine, Loring Air Force Base averages 105 inches of snow a year. It was built during the late 1940s to ensure that limited-range B-47 bombers could reach the Soviet Union from a base in the continental United States. As B-47s were re- placed with longer range B-52 and B-1 bombers, Loring's far-northem site was no longer a strategic...