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While confirming many rumors, Tifft and Jones debunk the darkest: that Judge Robert Worth Bingham murdered the new wife whose bequest enabled him to buy the papers in 1918. They suggest that she died of alcoholism or tertiary syphilis contracted from a prior spouse. Promised revelations about what finally led Barry Sr. to sell prove anticlimactic: senior aides were ready to move on, making continued family operation unmanageable. What really deserted the Binghams was the faith that a family-owned newspaper is more than a mere capital asset. The book never proves that Bingham ownership was all that good...
EVEN IN THE darkest months of the Gulf War, some of the most gruesome film footage shown on the evening news ironically took place not in the Persian Gulf but right here at home. The image of Los Angeles police officers last month brutally beating a defenseless citizen, Rodney King, woke the nation out of its post-Iraq euphoria and showed us the savage side of human nature. The picture of King's bruised face was comparable to the Iraqis' display of allied prisoners of war in the disgust and horror they both evoked...
...Rolls-Royces and Bentleys pulling up in front of B.C.C.I.'s opulent London office on March 14, 1990, could have signaled a routine meeting of bank directors and officers. The occasion turned out instead to be the darkest day in the high-flying private bank's 18-year history. Key officials received the startling news that the world's fastest-growing international bank, no longer headed by its financial genius founder, was in deep trouble. Hundreds of millions of dollars was missing from its capital accounts, and hundreds of millions more consisted of loans granted to insiders to buy stock...
...rosiest predictions for the war's aftermath envision a solution to the Palestinian problem and the emergence of new collective security arrangements that would calm the tempestuous region. The darkest prognoses foresee a Lebanon-like partitioning of Iraq and Jordan and a fueling of nationalist and Islamic extremism that would threaten Western interests and perhaps even bring down moderate Arab regimes. The array of possibilities is bewildering even to those who are leading the war effort. "Some sort of planning needs to be done," conceded Defense Secretary Dick Cheney while appearing before the House Armed Services Committee last December. "Everybody...
...shock waves quickly spread from the Palace of Congresses through the Soviet Union and the world. For Gorbachev, who shook his head in disbelief as his Foreign Minister spoke, it was the darkest hour of his leadership. Not only had he lost one of his closest allies in the Kremlin, but it seemed obvious that he could no longer continue walking a tightrope over the heads of reformist democrats, national separatists and proponents of a law-and-order crackdown; the splits had become too deep and envenomed for that. And Shevardnadze tossed in a warning of what might happen...