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...light of the Balkan experience. Dissension was not afflicting the U.S. alone though. In Germany the Suddeutsche Zeitung last week put on its front page a classified wire sent to Bonn by the German ambassador to NATO, Hermann von Richthofen, a grandnephew of the World War I flying ace known as the Red Baron. His complaints centered on what he styled an arbitrary U.S. push to expand NATO eastward rapidly and to lift the arms embargo on Bosnia, which he said would strain the alliance "to the limits...
Like Dole, Gramm is an ace organizer. He already has $6 million on hand from his last run for the Senate in Texas. But he could end up like John Connally in 1980: great lines, a lot of money, no votes. Count Dole as the favorite, but watch for the fight inside as the battle to define responsible reform takes shape...
Whoa, Clearly this guy has been hitting the books just a tad too hard. He'll probably ace his midterms, though. He can just slip those sentences into any given midterm and they'll make perfect sense. For you readers out there, feel free to use those sentences as well. They're in the public domain...
...federal panel appointed a Los Angeles attorney to investigate whether Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy illegally accepted travel, lodging and sports tickets from Tyson Foods and other companies doing business with his department. Donald C. Smaltz, a federal prosecutor in the 1960s, has a reputation as an ace in white-collar crime cases...
...Walt steadily improves, and so do his bookings: "We stunned them in Worcester. We wowed them in Springfield. They dropped their drawers in Bridgeport." His self-regard soars as well: "I was Walt the Wonder Boy, the diminutive daredevil who defied the laws of gravity, the one and only ace of the air." He is struck by the fact that his triumphs take wing in the same year, 1927, that Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic: "I didn't know the Lone Eagle from a hole in the ground, but I felt linked to him after that, as if we shared...