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Western influence in Saudi Arabia has reached the point at which an agent of obscurantism and xenophobia can now vituperate against foreigners in their own language. The conservative clergy is still a powerful force here, and it is by no means reconciled to King Fahd's decision to ask infidels to help protect the kingdom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad | 1/21/1991 | See Source »

...there and do tremendous damage," said Chicago dentist Jerald Schwab. "We have to wipe out the military capability of Saddam Hussein permanently and totally. If we don't go to war, we are going to have much greater problems in the future." In Jacksonville an insurance agent by the name of George Bush, who is no relation to the President, said, "We have no other alternative but to go in before Saddam Hussein makes it worse. This maniac only answers at the point of a gun, I'm afraid." Insurance agent Bush worries, however: with three nearby naval bases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anxiety Before the Storm | 1/21/1991 | See Source »

...spending binges across London's West End. There are tales of betrayal, accidental and cold-blooded. And there is some rough stuff. Ned remembers a beating he had suffered at the hands of a Polish military officer who then, rolling down his sleeves, offered his services as a double agent for the British. Another episode seems a conscious reprise of Heart of Darkness. Ned is sent east to find out what happened to an agent who disappeared; he turns up an account of appalling brutality at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, and unbelievable paternal devotion from a father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ice Cubes: THE SECRET PILGRIM by John le Carre | 1/14/1991 | See Source »

...first work would rush to buy the second. In Lila, Pirsig chronicles a journey undertaken by Phaedrus, whom readers may recognize as Pirsig's alter ego in the earlier book. Phaedrus meets Lila in a bar and takes a sailboat ride with her up the Hudson River. Pirsig's agent describes the journey as a search for the "metaphysics of quality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Return of The Truth Seeker | 1/14/1991 | See Source »

...Under Cover, seemed to have grasped this when he left his field assignment for a CIA-type intelligence agency (known here as The Company) and moved to a desk job in Washington. But those overseas assignments just keep on coming -- both for Dylan and for his wife, another ex-agent having a hard time retiring. First, Dylan must thwart a former KGB chief who is plotting to assassinate a popular Soviet reformer. Then, in a hot-off-the- presses story line, he and his colleagues race to stop a renegade Iraqi colonel from launching a biological weapon against Israel. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Would It Fool the Family Cat? | 1/14/1991 | See Source »

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