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Afghanistan has now lost its status as a “most favored nation.” It took a while, but we don’t get mad, we get even.

Ideological vultures are circling around the space shuttle disaster. The Nation used it to call the strategic defense initiative “an engine of national suicide.” In England, Hugh Montefiore, the bishop of Birmingham, said that the disaster was “a blessing in disguise,” because it could affect the development of space defense. El Salvador’s Communist guerrillas, in a broadcast by Radio Venceremos, called the crew members “war criminals” and said, “We share the happiness felt by those who reject and condemn U.S. imperialism’s warmongering policies.” Scum of the world unite. You have nothing to lose, having lost everything that matters already.

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Afghanistan has now lost its status as a “most favored nation.” It took a while, but we don’t get mad, we get even.

Ideological vultures are circling around the space shuttle disaster. The Nation used it to call the strategic defense initiative “an engine of national suicide.” In England, Hugh Montefiore, the bishop of Birmingham, said that the disaster was “a blessing in disguise,” because it could affect the development of space defense. El Salvador’s Communist guerrillas, in a broadcast by Radio Venceremos, called the crew members “war criminals” and said, “We share the happiness felt by those who reject and condemn U.S. imperialism’s warmongering policies.” Scum of the world unite. You have nothing to lose, having lost everything that matters already.