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Bill Clinton never experienced hostile fire in Vietnam or anywhere else, but last week the future Commander in Chief learned firsthand what baptism by fire means. His affirmation of his campaign pledge to lift the Pentagon's ban on homosexuals serving in the military triggered such anger, especially in the Pentagon, that he was forced to add that the step would be taken only after consultation with "a lot of people...
...access to view the prince and princess in action. Such observations only reinforced Duffy's respect for Diana. "If someone tells me she's stupid, I stop the conversation," she says. "Diana is not; she is as savvy as she is incandescent." Palace aides helped fill out Duffy's firsthand impressions so long as her inquiries skirted personal matters...
Senior editor Nancy Gibbs, who supervised the project, knows the debate firsthand. She is an elder of her Presbyterian church -- the congregation where her mother is the first-ever female clerk. Says Gibbs: "People feel that you can go to church and know something familiar will be there. Women are seeking access to institutions -- corporations, the military, the Senate -- that have been led by men, but none has such an old tradition." Subtleties of human emotion are an important factor in this conflict. Associate editor Richard N. Ostling, who wrote the article, notes that "many people view the present conflict...
...LATE 1930S A HARVARD STUDENT TRAVELED TO Europe to see its brutal dictatorships firsthand. He visited Mussolini's Italy, Stalin's Soviet Union and Hitler's Germany. Writing in his diary, the young man confided that he had come "to the decision that Facism ((sic)) is the thing for Germany and Italy, Communism for Russia and Democracy for America and England." But when he ran for President in 1960, John F. Kennedy never had to explain that isolationist view. Nor would raising the issue have made much sense, because the mature Kennedy had long since outgrown the jottings...
...Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (once known as the KGB) is starting its own newsmagazine. The first issue bristles with articles about espionage, the Russian mafia and the infamous Lubyanka prison, which some of the editors probably know firsthand. Called SB, the monthly also includes profiles of KGB spies. With pictures...