Capitol Ideas/Defenseless Cowards
Bethell, Tom
• CAPITOL IDEAS DEFENSELESS COWARDS by Tom Bethell O n September 30, 1988, in a Wall we are told. "The Establishment is last summer, Jon Utley, a friend of among the American leadership class...
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...Soviet troops are of every year amount largely to a form ment over whether defense is destabiliz- Majority Leader, George Mitchell, is retreating from Afghanistan (they are of domestic pork barrel, the money going, and I think that is an absolutely "trying very hard to establish from our all supposed to be out by February 15), ing to salaries, pensions, the maintenonsensical argument...
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...The fruits of this 40-year construction program now offer the Soviet wartime leadership the option of remaining beneath Moscow, or, at some point, boarding secret subway lines connecting these deep underground facilities...
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