If The Newspapers Of A Country Are

Secrecy Is For Losers. . . . It Is Time To Dismantle Government Secrecy, This Most Persuasive Of Cold War-era Regulations. It Is Time To Begin Building The Supports For The Era Of Openness That Is Already Upon Us.

If You Don't Have 30 Years To Devote To Social Policy, Don't Get Involved.

The Soviet Union Came Apart Along Ethnic Lines. The Most Important Factor In This Breakup Was The Disinclination Of Slavic Ukraine To Continue Under A Regime Dominated By Slavic Russia. Yugoslavia Came Apart Also, Beginning With A Brutal Clash Between Serbia And Croatia, Here Again 'nations' With Only The Smallest Differences In Genealogy; With, Indeed, Practically A Common Language. Ethnic Conflict Does Not Require Great Differences; Small Will Do.

It Is Perhaps Common In The World For Individuals And Nations To Suffer For Their Noble Qualities More Than For Their Ignoble Ones. For Nobility Is An Occasion For Pride, The Most Treacherous Of Sentiments.

The Us Wished Things To Turn Out As They Did, And Worked To Bring This About. The Department Of State Desired That The Un Prove Utterly Ineffective In Whatever Measures It Undertook. This Task Was Given To Me, And I Carried It Forward With No Inconsiderable Success.