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...billion A-12 attack jet, a move that stunned the weapons industry, and denounced the Pentagon procurement chiefs in public for lying about weapons costs, a problem that Reagan's Defense Secretary, Caspar Weinberger, would never so much as acknowledge. On arms control, however, Cheney, a skeptic again, dug in his heels. In his memoirs, Baker says Cheney argued so consistently in early 1990 that the Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe was a bad idea that eventually Bush had to say, "I want this done. Don't keep telling me why it can't be." Says Scowcroft...
...already to be measuring the bass in the lake. "George gets a great joy from it," says the father, who gave him a fishing skiff for the lake. "That's a little boat he can get in and row around. He put in some bass holds. Those are holes dug in the lake bottom and filled up with branches, and the bass will hold there. We talk about how the holds are looking. And I got him a gun case for his birthday." Barbara glances up, chides, "Don't give it away." The President grins, a little sheepishly...
After his exeunt from the citizens of Massachusetts, a poor attempt at national eclat and a wretched first novel, Weld has finally dug his own grave. By leaving Susan Weld and their five children and deciding to "date" while still married to his lady-wife, Weld clearly aspires to Clintonesque activities. Does he truly think his image will remain as Teflon as the President? By thinking that his middle-aged paunch and balding head might possibly be attractive on-screen, in addition to his deplorable treatment of his wife, Weld has remade himself into a less than admirable public figure...
...famine-stricken North, progress may be slower when President Kim urges his host to curb a missile program that has put North Korea at the top of Washington's "rogue state" charts, and when Dear Leader Kim suggests that his guest get rid of the 30,000 U.S. troops dug in along the cease-fire line. Deep differences, in other words, may remain for some time, as Pyongyang makes its first, hesitant moves toward opening its doors to the world, ever fearful that such an opening could bring the edifice of its personality-cult communism crashing down. But in opening...
...Justin thought this would be a wonderful moment to publicize the event," Malm says. The two got a megaphone and drove through the Yard, throwing candy and flyers to passers-by. "Of course when the Harvard police showed up, it was Justin who dug...