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...portions of First in His Class about the President's attempts to avoid the draft also offer up damning new insight. According to Maraniss, when Clinton ran for Congress in 1974, he was worried about a letter he had written to his ROTC colonel thanking him ``for saving me from the draft.'' ``How Clinton . . . persuaded him to return the letter is unclear,'' Maraniss writes, but the colonel did, and Clinton believed he had put the matter to rest. He had not; an aide to the colonel kept a copy, which did near fatal damage during the '92 campaign...
...protests, especially after the privatization of the national telephone company and a series of utility price hikes. Critics speculate that the President may be encouraging the border fighting in an effort to appease an army disgruntled by last year's 35% cut in the military budget. Defense Ministry spokesman Colonel Alberto Molina denies that soldiers are resentful: ``We've been cutting back for decades, and the armed forces would not provoke a confrontation just to be humiliated. We all know that Peru could blast us out of the water if it wanted...
...greeted arriving police with a fusillade that wounded five people, including a policeman. The police pursued the fleeing robbers, but soon ran out of ammunition. A squad car broke down. Officers mistook a passing van for a getaway car and fired on it; inside was a police colonel, who sought refuge in a nearby supermarket. Said Jun Grajales, a university teacher: ``People now cower in fear when they see cops, whereas before they used to sigh in relief.'' The gunmen remain at large...
...Colonel Ludlow (Anthony Hopkins) and the wife who has very sensibly left him named their firstborn Alfred and their last born Samuel, and both are pretty normal, boring American boys--the former (Aidan Quinn) perhaps a little too priggish and self-serving, the latter (Henry Thomas) perhaps a little too simpy and idealistic. But in the middle there's Tristan (Brad Pitt, with a long, irritating mane of hair, doing his James Dean imitation...
...squabbling over their brother's fiance, played, thankfully, by the lovely Julia Ormond, who gives the movie's only unaffected performance. At this point your thoughts may turn back to East of Eden, which was a gloss on the biblical tale of Cain and Abel. When the Colonel suffers a stroke, just as the patriarch in that film did, you may begin to entertain suspicions of rip-off--not to mention thoughts of escape from this tangle of portentous cross-references...