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...DANIEL J. T. SCHUKER ’08 of Cambridge, Mass. and Quincy House Executive Editor...
Nowhere was the scandal played as such unabashedly good news as in Nicaragua, whose Marxist-led Sandinista government hoped it would be a major blow to the chances of continued U.S. support of the contra guerrillas. President Daniel Ortega claimed the Sandinistas had known all along that the U.S. was conducting a campaign to keep antigovernment forces supplied in defiance of congressional prohibition. The Sandinistas hope the prohibition, lifted in October after Congress voted to send $100 million in U.S. aid over the next year, will be clamped back...
...beauty of some things prevails even in an age of overexposure. Châteaux of the Loire (Vendome; 152 pages; $45) is a splendid case in point. Photographer Daniel Philippe has looked again at 19 of these fairyland fortresses, both from the sky and the ground, in snow and in bloom. There is formidable Chambord, which may have been planned by Leonardo da Vinci, and delicate Azay-le-Rideau, the creation of a banker who went too far when he mixed state money with his own. The aerial exposures suggest that some of the châteaux were designed for the eyes...
...Hunt served 33 months in prison for his role in the scandal, which exploded when one of the burglars was found to have Hunt's White House telephone number in his address book. Hunt had previously helped orchestrate another famous break-in, at the office of the psychiatrist treating Daniel Ellsberg, the defense analyst who leaked the Pentagon papers. In 1997 Hunt declared bankruptcy, blaming, among other things, Watergate fines and legal fees. "I think I've paid my debt to society," he said...
...pacts to Nicaraguan street vendors who aren't likely to see their benefits, the U.S. is sending signals that it's ready to embrace the kind of policies that matter to Latin voters. Bush himself made a surprise phone call this month to Washington's bitter cold war enemy, Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua, to congratulate him on winning the presidency again and to pledge U.S. support in urgent areas like microfinancing for small- and medium-size businesses, which employ most Latin Americans. Experts cite myriad other privations they say the U.S. needs to focus on south of the border, including...