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Parents are beset by new rules -- and ethical concerns...
ATTORNEY GENERAL WILLIAM BARR FINDS HIMSELF presiding over a Department of Justice beset from every quarter. Dragged early in the week into a probe of its own FBI director for ethics violations, Barr's Justice Department must now endure the attentions of an "independent counsel," drafted by Barr to investigate the roiling dispute between his department and the CIA over whether the government obstructed the investigation of an illegal scheme to funnel $4 billion to the Iraqi regime before the invasion of Kuwait...
...MOOD, DIAlogue and vignette won screenplay Oscars for To Kill a Mockingbird and Tender Mercies and gave Geraldine Page unforgettable moments in The Trip to Bountiful. But his stage plays suffer from haphazard , structure, predictable plot and an inability to invest poignant incidents with larger significance. These faults beset THE ROADS TO HOME, which opened off- Broadway last week under the author's direction. The cast of nine, an army on the tiny stage, seems thin and the story wan. But Emmy winner Jean Stapleton and the author's daughter Hallie glow as two Texas housewives, one full of repressed...
...statesmen would be content to write their memoirs, the 64-year-old diplomat has embarked on the riskiest mission of his career: bringing peace and stability to his homeland. There he daily faces more violence than he did as a major player in the cold war, as Georgia is beset by ethnic rebellions in the independence-minded regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia and by a campaign of terrorist attacks by loyalists of deposed President Zviad Gamsakhurdia...
...admired around the world for his role in ending the cold war, but Eduard Shevardnadze has had little success so far in bringing peace to his troubled homeland of Georgia. Since his return there last March, Shevardnadze has been beset by coup attempts, ethnic rebellions and acts of political terrorism. Seven days after the former Soviet Foreign Minister, now leader of Georgia's State Council, proclaimed a "manifesto" of reconciliation and released political prisoners, armed supporters of ousted President Zviad Gamsakhurdia struck again. They burst in on peace negotiations in the city of Zugdidi and abducted 12 officials...