Word: destroyed
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...this month, there are these priceless tapes exposing more of the Watergate cover-up. Nixon on the congressional hearings: "If they started a fishing expedition on this, they are going to start picking up tracks." On presidential counsel and informer John Dean: "I think we can destroy him. We must destroy him." To which the take-charge humorist, former White House chief of staff Alexander Haig, replies, "Have...
...someone to pretend to be the princess so that he can reap a reward from Anastasia's surviving grandmother. Amidst all this, Anastasia must deal with her amnesia (which seems a strange perversion of repressed memory syndrome) and with the pesky Rasputin who rises from Hell in order to destroy the last heir of the Romanovs...
...TIME State Department correspondent Dean Fischer says the U.S. could be persuaded to accept such a deal if Iraq guarantees to destroy these weapons and allows UNSCOM the unfettered right to monitor the process. Washington could even accept a change in the composition of UNSCOM to achieve more participation by officials from different countries, says Fischer...
...because of his secret plotting against Castro, which the Cuban leader knew about, even if most Americans did not. "The overriding deceit--one that still distorts the history of those 13 days--was the absolute determination of Jack and Bobby Kennedy to conceal their campaign to assassinate Castro and destroy his regime," Hersh writes. "Kennedy did not dare tell the full story of the Soviet missiles in Cuba, because it was his policies that brought the weapons there." This is an interesting theory, but it's plucked out of thin air. Hersh goes on to argue that amid the "fanaticism...
...future, humankind must defend itself against a terrifying race of insects--hordes and hordes of incredibly tough and resilient bugs. The brave and fearless men and women of the Mobile Infantry, the awe-inspiring Starship Troopers, must make it their singular goal to destroy every last one of these hideous threats to humanity...