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...much for Ollie's vaunted respect for superiors. But he was not alone. Almost everyone held William Casey at arm's length in those days. A major scandal had just surfaced: in a covert arms-for-hostages deal, the Great Satan had sold weapons to its enemy, Iran. Profits had been diverted to the Nicaraguan contras. Casey, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, would be summoned to testify about what he knew and when he knew...
...intifadeh. No wonder the Foreign Ministry launched a public relations campaign about a decade ago intended to package for international consumption upbeat stories on such subjects as Israeli science and medicine. Last week it was revealed that the country's legitimate public relations effort has been paralleled by a covert one: the New York Times reported that for years the Foreign Ministry has secretly paid free-lance radio reporters to do progovernment stories that were then marketed as objective news...
...growing increasingly alarmed at the possibility of a return to power by the Khmer Rouge forces, which were responsible for the death of at least 1 million fellow Cambodians during their reign of terror from 1975 to 1978. Last month the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence voted against further covert aid to the tripartite coalition; the corresponding House committee was expected to follow suit. Two weeks ago, a bipartisan group of 11 Senators circulated a letter asking the Administration to alter its policy...
...spent the past year and a half distancing himself from Ronald Reagan. His White House press room is used for press conferences, not games of hide-and-seek; his First Lady prefers gardening in slacks to hostessing in a designer dress. Even the phrase "kinder, gentler" was a covert, backward-looking rebuke: Kinder and gentler than...
Timeless and all embracing as Shakespeare seems, he sometimes shows himself to be, unmistakably and unattractively, a man of his times. The Merchant of Venice is so bluntly anti-Semitic that most modern directors infuse their staging with irony, distorting the play into a covert dissent against bigotry. Just as problematic is The Taming of the Shrew, which treats women as economic or sexual prizes and delights in detailing how one husband breaks his wife's spirit through starvation, humiliation, irrationality and hints of violence. Most contemporary renditions warp the play into a feminist satire...