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...involved in Dallas"--and who now, at 74, is on the verge of big payday, delivering and selling a planeload of unspecified merchandise somewhere in the Caribbean. It is 1984, after all, and the region is abuzz with preparations for what would later be described as the Iran-contra affair. Unfortunately, her father falls ill, and Elena agrees to accompany the plane on its mission and pick up the million dollars he expects to receive...
...least, President Clinton has been spared this burden. He is the first elected Democrat since F.D.R. not to face a serious primary challenge. Nor have Democrats taken up the charge that Clinton is ethically challenged. In sharp contrast to the bipartisan outrage over Watergate and Iran-contra, the Whitewater hearings broke down completely along partisan lines. This may help explain why most voters seem to be treating the affair as too embroiled in political wrangling to affect their votes in November. But that is also why the FBI files story has at least the potential to cause real political damage...
...Rising expectations have given way to escalating suspicions about those in power. It isn't only the Montana Freemen who believe that we have met the enemy and he is U.S. "We know we've been lied to," says Bryce Zabel, Dark Skies' co-creator, "about Vietnam, Watergate, Iran-contra." Moreover, as ID4's Emmerich notes, "every generation creates its own mythology. Now the mythology centers on the government's hiding the dead alien bodies it discovered at Roswell...
...nothing else of any benefit ever comes of Whitewater, at least maybe, at long merciful last, you in the media will finally stop hanging -gate on the end of everything from jaywalking to capital murder (Billygate, contra-gate, Irangate, travelgate, skategate, ad nauseam). First, though, we have to find a cute replacement that you can cement yourselves to for the next half-century or so. Let's see: "Whitebilly" (nah)..."travelwater" (ugh). I despair. ERIC POOLE Londonderry, New Hampshire Via E-mail
...immediately after the bombing, Oklahoma City. The second half of Graham's autobiography, Rebel with a Cause, recounts with obvious relish various acts of charitable and evangelical derring-do, from dodging P.L.O. cannon fire while aiding an evangelical church in Beirut to training chaplains for the right-wing contra insurrection during the Nicaraguan civil war to jockeying a disabled plane into a remote village in Turkey. "I got it both ways," he once told GQ magazine. "When I die I'll go immediately to the presence of God, and yet in life I had a blast." Samaritan's Purse, like...