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...this incident that Dole had in mind as he flew back from South Dakota on Nov. 4 to join the U.S. delegation to Yitzhak Rabin's funeral. "I told them, 'No more of those pledges,'" he said. "That's it." And then, for the second time in three months, Dole mentioned a man named Rick Smith. Richard Norton Smith directs the Ronald Reagan presidential library, and has been close to Dole since helping the candidate write his book, The Doles: Unlimited Partners. Smith is one of a small cadre of Dole friends and Senate staff members who have been doing...
Yasser Arafat also seized the occasion to visit for the first time the country he had so long preached unrelenting war against. The Israelis refused to invite the Palestine Liberation Organization chief to Rabin's funeral. But an Israeli military helicopter flew him into Tel Aviv Thursday night to pay a condolence call at Leah Rabin's apartment. Arafat told Mrs. Rabin that her husband was a "hero of peace" and a "dear friend." She responded that "Yitzhak saw in you, Mr. Arafat, a partner in making peace." If tact forbade either to mention what both well knew--that Rabin...
...fitting the Hubble with a set of eyeglasses--was a high-cost ($700 million), high-risk venture, and some astronomers were dubious. "They considered the whole thing to be rather a Rube Goldberg creation," says Spitzer. On top of that, the list of tasks assigned to the astronauts who flew the repair mission--not just installing the new optics, but replacing an outdated camera, two wobbly solar-energy panels and three faulty gyroscopes, among other balky components--seemed too long. "I don't think anyone except the astronauts themselves thought they could complete the mission," says Bahcall...
Four schools eventually flew Sprinkle in to visit...
Negotiators in Dayton appear close to a possible peace accord for the warring Balkan nations. Defense Secretary William Perry and National Security Adviser Anthony Lake flew to the talks at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Friday while Secretary of State Warren Christopher cut short his trip to the economic summit in Tokyo in order to get back to Dayton that evening. "It's make-or-break at this point," says TIME's Douglas Waller. "They've basically agreed on the major issues and are now quibbling on the minor ones. They are very close, and the only thing missing...