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...tragic blunderings in Southeast Asia; rather, it is as close to elemental tragedy as any nonfiction account to come out of the war. Bryan conveys Peg Mul len's grief and rage with such purity and tact that at times she seems like a Mid dle Western Antigone, challenging the authority of the state in the name of what individuals hold most sacred. This might be too high-blown a comparison for the farmer's wife to accept. But she would probably agree with Sophocles' ancient heroine that "it is the dead, not the living, who make...
...safe-deposit box. But it was not the original $10,000, and, according to Jacobsen, Connally grew anxious that some of the bills had been circulated after 1971. Connally gave him yet another $10,000 on Nov. 25, 1973, Jacobsen told the court, to replace the first bun dle, but FBI agents discovered that it contained 16 bills with serial numbers that had not been in circulation in 1971. That disclosure caused Jacobsen to make a deal with prosecutors and agree to testify against Connally...
...neither his flaws nor his damaging setback in the Mid dle East have destroyed Kissinger's effectiveness as Secretary of State. He will remain a conduit for the various belligerents in the Middle East, negotiating among them quietly or in the more public forum at Geneva. He hopes to persuade the Russians to moderate the Arab demands, while he preaches restraint to both sides, and he may have some success...
...sure, some of the causes of inflation seem almost beyond government control. European refiners have had to swallow a 17% rise in the cost of Mid dle Eastern and North African oil in the past six months, and some textile mills are paying 40% to 50% more for cotton and wool, partly because purchases by the all-consuming Japanese have shrunk supply. The most volatile commodity of all is the $80 billion in Eurodollars, spilled out of the U.S. by past excessive American spending, that ricochets from country to country, feed ing inflation by swelling the available money supply...
...that she is in generally good health and would have nothing to keep her busy if she retires. Another is that Mrs. Meir feels that only she can talk firmly to President Nixon during what may turn out to be a year of decision in the Mid dle East. Finally, she wants to forestall a bitter battle for the succession that might tumble Israel's tenuous governing coalition. Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir, her choice, is the Labor Party king maker but has no voter popularity; if she turned over the job to him midway through her next term, Sapir...