| SAUDI ARABIA | 4 | 6 |
| ARGENTINA | 3 | 4 |
| BRAZIL | 4 | 4 |
| OTHER | 2 | 2 |
Will the United States ever again emerge as a world economic power?
| - | 1993 | 1992 |
|---|---|---|
| AGREE | 37% | 32% |
| DISAGREE | 57 | 62 |
| NO OPINION | 6 | 6 |
Will the United States ever regain its status again as a military power?
| - | 1993 | 1992 |
|---|---|---|
| AGREE | 32% | 29% |
| DISAGREE | 65 | 67 |
| NO OPINION | 3 | 4 |
Documents from the Emergency
There was no doubt that it was fire. They felt it burn their skin, then their bones, then their brains.
The first test of my ability to get sensitive documents from official sources came immediately. Both Whitley and I wanted to have a selection of documents that had been produced in the months following Warday.
Most people were too busy dealing with blown out radios, televisions, and telephones, and trying to understand what had happened to us, to worry about bureaucrats and their pronouncements.
But they were there, and they were pronouncing.
Many times since Warday I have imagined the places where the postwar planning and thinking took place, the quiet offices at the edge of the fire. I have wondered who the men—or the women—were who divided the doomed from the saved, who conceived of triage, who looked upon the rest of us with cold eyes.
Much of what I did to get documents was “illegal” in the old sense of the word. I not only took things off desks, I opened files that were supposed to be sealed. But the documents in those files cannot be stolen, especially not the two collected here, which relate to the most fundamental of wartime experiences.
Like the people behind the numbers and the places in the radioactive zones, they belong to all of us.
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