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...tense. Even moderate black newspapers like the Sowetan had denounced Perkins for accepting a "racist" appointment based on the color of his skin. A U.D.F. spokesman had said that Perkins should have turned down the job, adding that he would be "most unwelcome" in South Africa. But after two discreet talks with Perkins, the U.D.F.'s Sisulu said, "Now that he is here and willing to help, it is all right. I believe in give-and-take...
Among the NSC staff, Colonel North was discreet about his beliefs, but he has eagerly shared his experiences with outsiders. Two years ago, he told a complete stranger about a healing he had undergone. The Rev. Stephen King, an evangelical pastor at the Cherrydale Baptist Church in Arlington, Va., recalls that North sat down next to him in a barber shop and joyously recounted how a few years before he had been contorted by wracking back pain while in the field with a group of officers. One of the officers, a fellow charismatic, knelt down before North and prayed fervently...
...three, Rafsanjani is the most flexible toward the West, a negotiator and pragmatist in a government of purists. He has initiated discreet diplomatic openings to the West, and is believed to have championed the negotiations with both France and the U.S. for the release of the remaining hostages in Lebanon. He is thought to have tried to reduce Iran's financial support of fanatical terrorism abroad. Some U.S. officials believe that he has argued for an end to the human-wave assaults against Iraq in order to ease public resentment over the war's harrowing cost in lives. Others, however...
...selection of a new managing director of the International Monetary Fund is usually a discreet affair, conducted almost exclusively behind closed doors. But the competition to replace Frenchman Jacques de Larosiere, who announced his coming departure in September, has generated -- in financial circles at least -- all the excitement of a tight horse race. Last week a winner hit the wire: Bank of France Governor Michel Camdessus, 53. When he takes over next month as chief of the IMF, which provides short-term emergency loans to troubled nations, Camdessus will become perhaps the second most powerful moneyman in the world, after...
...evidence, Chekhov was always discreet and gentlemanly in his affairs with women. Lydia Avilova, a persistent and hysterical pursuer, was tactfully kept at bay for years. When the playwright finally married, it was to Olga Knipper, one of Moscow's best-known actresses. Unfortunately, her career frequently kept her in the city, and his illness tied him to Yalta. He died at age 44, drinking champagne with Olga at his bedside. The death scene is cordon bleu Chekhov. A large black moth flutters into the room, and as the body of the famous man cools, the cork pops...