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It is 1 p.m. on April Fool's eve, and 2,000 of the faithful have filed into < the sold-out Tupperware Convention Center in Kissimmee, Fla. On the lawn outside stands a light infantry of pickup trucks; one bumper sign reads GOD GUNS AND GUTS MADE AMERICA--LET'S...
The degree of microscopic control maintained at the top of that pyramid is almost beyond Western comprehension. In 1983, for example, a published summary of one Politburo meeting revealed that, among other things, the members of the Soviet Union's supreme decision-making body had considered whether to lower the...
Meantime, Bush, the professional mourner (six funerals of top foreign leaders), was Reagan's eyes and ears when he gripped Gorbachev's hand in Moscow last Wednesday afternoon. Funerals are robust ground for political intrigue. Bush, the former CIA head, hardly needed coaching. From the Brezhnev and Andropov burials he...
But Chief Greenberg had at least three things working for him: energy, flamboyance and competence. During the past two years the number of arrests in Charleston has doubled, and the crime rate has tumbled. In the same period, not a shot was fired by police. His increased foot and mounted...
All of John Paul's actions are part of a strategy leading toward a high- profile identity for priests, brothers, sisters and nuns (in technical usage, nuns are a distinct category of sisters who take solemn vows). Explains one Vatican staff member: "You wonder why a man would bother to...