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...family surmise that the elder Haft, who had heart problems in 1991, regards his son's eagerness to take over as an unwelcome reminder of his own mortality. The Donnybrook also puzzles investors on Wall Street, where Dart stock, a highflyer in the '80s, has been languishing. Beset by growing competition and the sluggish economy, Dart saw its profits fall to $3.5 million in its latest fiscal year, down 44% from the previous period...
Lisa Foster, like everyone who knew her husband, is beset by what might have been. Said a friend who spoke to her in Little Rock: "She wonders, like anyone, why. And why did he get through the day before but not that day, and was there something about that day that could have gone differently that would have saved him from himself?" Even the stoic McLarty has allowed himself to go back over that last day and wonder what might have happened if he and Foster had not agreed to postpone a meeting until the next...
...months ago, many Europeans and Japanese, beset by economic reverses and political paralysis, gazed at the young new American President with frank envy. Says Max Kampelman, a former U.S. diplomat and Ronald Reagan's chief arms-control negotiator: "I think the world was ready for a Bill Clinton leadership, but Bill Clinton wasn't ready. Our President has a capacity to lead, but he started out falling flat on his face." Eugene Rostow, an Under Secretary of State in Lyndon Johnson's presidency, had similar high hopes for fellow Democrat Clinton; he now finds himself "puzzled, startled, disappointed...
...whom she adored. In 1976 she suffered her first stroke. Her family put the blame on the Woodward-Bernstein book The Final Days, as if reading about the nightmare was worse than living it. She recovered from that stroke and another after they moved to New York in 1980. Beset by emphysema and then lung cancer, she grew ever more frail. Last week, after 81 years, the life that had been a study in selflessness came to a quiet close, surrounded by the family who understood the real Pat Ryan Nixon...
...Clinton's narrow victory is the only bright spot in a presidency that has been beset since its inception by miscalculations and self-inflicted wounds. Clinton, in fact, was still stumbling from the missteps of the preceding week. His balmy decision to have his hair trimmed on Air Force One by a Beverly Hills coiffeur put the presidential scalp in national headlines, while a cronyism scandal in the White House travel office pitted Clinton's staff against the Justice Department. Later Secretary of State Warren Christopher had to telephone news organizations to contradict a speech by a top aide...