Word: fiascos
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POLLACK: I was desperate to get the building--the movie would have been a fiasco without it--but also desperate not to be a used-car salesman. I met with Kofi Annan and said, "I wish I could tell you we're going to make this great message movie for the U.N., but we're not. It's a thriller. It's sympathetic to the U.N.'s goals, but it's not a preaching piece about politics...
...easily avoidable fiasco began with the inexplicable decision by two Border Patrol officers that Medvid had not been seeking asylum and should be returned to his ship. The agents did not speak Ukrainian, so they telephoned a translator in New York, who interviewed the nervous sailor while one agent listened. The interpreter, Irene Padoch, insisted that Medvid had made it clear that he was seeking asylum "to live in an honest country" and that she told this to the agents. Nonetheless, they signed an order that Medvid be returned to his ship...
Despite the strains imposed on old friendships by the cemetery fiasco, broader common interests would surely prevent lasting ruptures. West Germany and the U.S. are staunch NATO allies and major trading partners. More personally, few Jews see Reagan as harboring any traces of anti-Semitism. His credentials as a champion of Israel remain unchallenged. Even his most effective critic, Elie Wiesel, spoke more in sorrow than in anger. It was obvious there was a concern for humanity in what the President was striving to achieve, no matter how awkwardly he went about it. What disturbed Reagan's friends and critics...
...analogy does not hold, and that Kohl and Reagan could miss the point is at the heart of the Bitburg fiasco. World War II was unlike World War I, or any other war. It was unique because Nazism was unique. Nazi Germany was not just another belligerent; it was a criminal state. Even that term is inadequate...
...Bitburg fiasco is a mess, but even messes have a logic. This incident is a compound of some of the worst tendencies of the Reagan presidency: a weakness for theater, a neglect of history and a narrowly conceived politics...