title: America Invulnerable: The Quest for Absolute Security from 1812 to Star Wars
author:  James Chace 
description: One tends to think of "national security" as a modern concern but, as Chace and Carr point out in this major study, American presidents have pursued it obsessively since the early days of the Republic. The authors demonstrate that this quest has brought with it a strong disposition to respond militarily to threats that more often are perceived than actual. This has led U.S. forces to increasingly remote regions until, at last, our two-century search for perfect safety intrudes on outer space itself. In their lucid concluding chapter on the origin, development and probable difficulties and dangers of SDI, the authors warn that perfect security in an imperfect world is a deceitful dream, that meaningful progress toward world peace is unlikely as long as that dream is held up to the American public as an attainable goal. Chace was formerly managing editor of Foreign Affairs, and Carr was formerly on the staff of the Council of Foreign Relations. <br />Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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   STAR WARS: DARK FORCES
   Rebel Agent
    
   BY
    
   William C. Deets
   Ezra Tucker
    
    
    
   CHAPTER ONE
    
        Morgan Katarn was afraid. Afraid that he had missed something important, afraid that the planet
  which hung just beyond the transparisteel view port would prove unsuitable, and afraid that in spite of his
  considerable efforts, the Imperials would find the three hundred and forty-seven men, women, and
  children under his care and transport them to slave labor camps from which few, if any, would return.
        All because they had exercised that most basic of human liberties - the right of free speech. First in
  meetings held within the privacy of their own homes, then in loosely organized gatherings, and finally in
  Baron's Hed, Sulons principal city. Because the demonstration was over before Imperial forces had time
  to react, the colonists escaped without arrest, much to the local Commandant's embarrassment.
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