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No one had told the Navy about the measure. "Why should I?" asks Hamberger. "That's not my job." The Navy was infuriated. "It was all done before we knew anything about it," said a senior Defense Department official. "It was an abhorrent exercise of legislative prerogative." Last spring the...
O'Neill expresses grudging admiration for old Joe Kennedy, whom he describes handing out cash-filled briefcases to politicians who would do his bidding and keeping a careful watch on the progress of his sons. "The old man even had a maid in Jack's Washington house who reported to...
The relentless war with Iraq is only the most visible sign of Khomeini's determination to defeat heretics. No less important are Tehran's ties with the terrorist networks of Shi'ite radicals that stand ready to do the Ayatullah's bidding. Though tactics may shift, Khomeini's ultimate goal...
Three months after a Japanese insurance company paid $39.9 million for Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers, the overheated art market shows few signs of cooling off. At Christie's London auction house last week, another Van Gogh work, The Bridge at Trinquetaille, was sold in just two tense minutes of...
This objection fails on four counts. First of all, it is "their oil" in only a technical sense. It is true that the Europeans and Japanese import more gulf oil than the U.S. does. But oil is fungible, and the U.S. imports almost half its oil. Were the gulf shut...