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...combat pilot by asking, "Have you ever seen a man knitting socks?"-- he built and commanded the Israeli air force from 1958 to 1966 and the following year helped lead the military's rapid, pre-emptive victory in the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War. Later, as an ardent peace advocate, he met with Palestinians, vocally criticized hard-liners and through his rapport with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat helped cement that country's historic 1979 peace agreement with Israel...
...Herrmann, you see—like myself—is an ardent, outspoken Yankee...
...most ardent defenders was Mexico City's Norberto Cardinal Rivera Carrera, who notoriously blamed the entire sex abuse scandal on the U.S. media. Rivera was one of just a handful of fellow Cardinals in attendance today at St. Peter's. He is also on most Vatican watchers' short-lists of "papabili" or potential popes. But it remains to be seen whether Rivera could muster key support from the 11-strong bloc of U.S. Cardinals after his remarks about the scandal. Most of the American Cardinals know very well that the sex abuse crisis was fortunately exposed-not caused...
Stockman's apostasy enraged such ardent supply-siders as Kemp and former Assistant Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts. "The Democrats and liberals grew to like Stockman," fumes Roberts, "because they knew that they only had to wait long enough for him to give up spending cuts and persuade the President to raise taxes. The only ones who were taken in were simpleminded conservatives, including the President, who thought Stockman was really serious about budget cutting...
...Ethiopians should have used from the beginning instead of suicidal frontal assaults). But not until Britain and Italy opposed each other in World War II did Italy's grip truly loosen. One of the attacking British contingents was a motley group called Gideon Force, led by Palestine Veteran and ardent Zionist Orde Wingate. Escorted by the force, Haile Selassie re-entered Addis Ababa in triumph...