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During his two days of testimony, with no lawyer whispering in his ear and no litany of don't-recalls, the Secretary of State gave a distinct moral lift to an affair in which the line between heroes and villains has often been blurred. Even when Shultz was discussing whether he should have resigned to stop the arms-for-hostages scheme, his measured outrage was bracing. Given the "systematic way in which the National Security Council staff deliberately deceived me," he noted, "my sense of Did I do enough? has to a certain extent given way to a little edge...
...dear Good, I think, dear God in whom I do not believe, It pray to you to stop this, for I am deathly frightened. Dear God, I smell my fear, with an odor as distinct as ozone on the air after a lightning flash. I feel fear so palpably it has a color, an oozing fiery red, and I feel it pitifully in my bones, which ache....Dear God, dear God, I am in agony and fear, and whatever I may have done to make you bring this down upon me, release me, please, I pray, release me. Release...
...interpreter. French officials vowed to take a hard line on the affair. But with six French hostages believed to be held by pro-Iranian factions in Lebanon -- and the 1979-81 U.S. embassy siege in Tehran still in the public mind -- France is, as one official conceded, "at a distinct disadvantage...
...architecture, the style was set going by Jefferson, the father of American architectural thought (as distinct from mere building). His particular inspiration was one structure, a Roman temple known as the Maison Carree at Nimes in the south of France. All the architectural work he had admired during his years as American Minister to France from 1785-89 -- Pierre Rousseau's Hotel de Salm, the Pantheon, the mock ruins of the Desert de Retz, the designs of dead masters like Andrea Palladio and living architects like Etienne Louis Boullee and Claude Nicolas Ledoux -- would leave their traces...
...Ottawa's direct control. But the French-speaking province of Quebec refused to sign the charter, charging that then Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was using the document to dilute French Canada. In April of this year, Mulroney and the provinces hammered out a delicate agreement recognizing Quebec as a "distinct society" and permitting it a larger degree of autonomy. Yet some premiers soon had qualms over the favors granted French Canadians and forced Mulroney into last week's marathon renegotiation. By sunrise, there was accord on provincial rights, and the premiers signed the constitution. "Today," said an ecstatic Mulroney...