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...Those of us in other parts of the world are left only with the perception of a trigger-happy U.S. Despite a plausible semblance of unity, Western Europe and Japan are at a loss about how to react. The reference to the U.N. resolutions is mere rhetoric, a fig leaf to cover what lies behind election politics. This charade demonstrates that Clinton is not a true world leader. YASUO HORI Matsudamachi, Japan
...come up with an acceptable alternative: "Republicans: Protecting individual rights from the moment of conception ... until birth." Maybe they didn't get it. One way or another, as tempers heat up, Rachel Shein's ice cream shop hopes to cool them down with some new flavors: Bob Dole Pineapple, Fig Newt Gingrich, Phil Gramm Cracker, Forbes Flat-Tax Fudge, and Peppermint Pattie Buchanan. With a sprig of Bay? Terence Nelan
...come up with an acceptable alternative: "Republicans: Protecting individual rights from the moment of conception ... until birth." Maybe they didn't get it. One way or another, as tempers heat up, Rachel Shein's ice cream shop hopes to cool them down with some new flavors: Bob Dole Pineapple, Fig Newt Gingrich, Phil Gramm Cracker, Forbes Flat-Tax Fudge, and Peppermint Pattie Buchanan. With a sprig of Bay? Terence Nelan
...powerful bomb that may have found its way onto the plane or of people yet unknown who may have launched a small missile against the airliner from a vantage point as yet undetected. The stories were cautious, with the ifs loudly iterated and "theory" worn like a reluctant fig leaf. Yet by Friday, there were indications that the Federal Government was weighing a decision to order stringent security directives not before seen in peacetime to all U.S. airlines, which would leave little doubt that the fall of TWA Flight 800 was deliberate terror. If the plane was sabotaged, the disaster...
...press critic Howard Kurtz says the overall coverage of Aldrich marks the collapse of journalistic standards as we know them: "We've gone from needing two sources to needing no sources to someone being able to make something up and get us to report it. The hardcover is the fig leaf that allows the press to publish what they couldn't otherwise." While Brinkley's This Week shot down some of Aldrich's statements, it had to give the book life in order to do so--and then failed to kill it off. The day after the show, there were...