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...reaction in diplomatic circles and the international media has been strangely muted. Iraq's flagrant violation of the 1925 Geneva Protocol did not precipitate an enraged outcry from the 105 nations that have signed the ban on chemical weapons through the years, nor did it inspire any attempt to bring Iraq before the International Court of Justice. Despite "major acts of genocide," says Steven Rose, a neurobiologist at Britain's Open University, "the fact is, Iraq has got away with...
Bush's chief pollster, veteran of six presidential campaigns, he helped bring Gerald Ford from 30 points behind in 1976 to within a couple of points of Jimmy Carter. Low-key and relatively untouched by Potomoc fever, he has never moved from Ann Arbor, Mich., to Washington. Teeter's influence on strategy may wane as the aggressive Darman moves in on issues and as Roger Ailes mushrooms all over the place. Still, Bush entrusted Teeter, 49, with paring down the list of vice-presidential possibilities and screening the survivors. Teeter also supervised Bush's acceptance speech...
...classmate of Bush's and fellow Bones member at Yale, though they took separate paths afterward. (Coffin is now the head of SANE/ FREEZE, an antinuclear organization.) When Bush visited Yale during Coffin's chaplainship, he sent word he would like to play some squash with his old classmate. "Bring him on," Coffin crowed. They played a few games, Coffin winning and Bush getting more determined to win. Coffin was ready to call it a day, but Bush kept asking for one more game. Recalls Coffin: "Word got around the gym that Left and Right were meeting on the center...
...some people's eyes, the ailment. Luckily, Bush had enough money to indulge his urge, under the pretext that it was done in order to make money. How little that motive was actually at work appears from the easy way he gave up the enterprise when it promised to bring in serious returns. In his autobiography, which plays down Andover and the East, the move to Texas is described in terms of the physical work he undertook when the natives were too shrewd to get caught doing...
WORLD: Violent protests in Burma bring down a despised strongman...