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Only two aides shared Shultz's views: L. Paul Bremer, head of State's counterterrorism office, who documented the case against Arafat as terrorist; and Charles Hill, the Secretary's tight-lipped, omnipresent personal assistant, who is known to share Shultz's strongly pro-Israel views...
...nostalgia surrounding Rogers-Astaire tends to bleach out other partners. But if Rita Hayworth, Cyd Charisse and Lucille Bremer melted more quickly into his arms, they did so with unsurpassed lyricism. Indeed, it is with Charisse during the Dancing in the Dark sequence of The Band Wagon that he attained romantic apotheosis. That film brought him to another kind of culmination. He always liked to shed his top hat, white tie and tails and make magic with homely props -- a golf club, a hat rack, a handful of firecrackers. In Band Wagon, glum and lonesome, he entered an amusement arcade...
...only violence that Wallace mentioned in his speech were the five shots that Arthur Bremer fired into his body in a Maryland parking lot in 1972. He did not mention the four black Sunday-school children bombed in a Birmingham church in 1963, or the way he stood in the schoolhouse door at the University of Alabama to keep blacks from going to class with whites. The omission was natural enough. That was long ago, and in some ways, it was in another country...
Lacking in selfesteem, many have donned and doffed different identities like costumes. Some have tried to weave identities out of fictional strands. Bremer imagined himself as the son of Actress Donna Reed. Sara Jane Moore, who tried to shoot President Ford, thought of herself as a Halo shampoo girl. The movie Taxi Driver wove together many themes found in the lives of American assassins. A taxi driver (played by Robert De Niro), obsessed with shooting a presidential candidate and protecting a young prostitute (Jodie Foster), beset by aggressive urges as well as sexual ones (coded in the film...
...Secret Service keeps a list of some 25,000 people believed to pose potential threats to the President, and 300 to 400 considered especially dangerous. Yet none of the persons involved in wellknown assassination attempts since 1963 -Sirhan Sirhan, Arthur Bremer, Lynette ("Squeaky") Fromme, Sara Jane Moore and John Hinckley-ever appeared on the Secret Service list...