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...move that would leave the July cut intact. To O'Neill, it appeared that Rostenkowski was pre-empting the Speaker's role as leadership spokesman. He called a meeting the next day and tore into his once loyal lieutenant. "You made me look like a fool, Dan!" O'Neill thundered...
...have had the motive, but many Western intelligence experts question whether the KGB would have engineered so amateurish a murder attempt. Says a British government analyst: "The repercussions of a Soviet assassination of the Pope would have been of such horrendous proportions that it would seem only a fool or a madman could have authorized it?and Andropov is neither." Arguments that the plot against John Paul was too clumsy to be the work of Soviet security may overestimate the KGB's sophistication. Says the FBI'S O'Malley: "We have an enormous respect for them as adversaries, but they...
Chesterton came to regard life as a moral melodrama. In it he appropriated the role of God's Fool. Sometimes his undertone was jovial: "And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine/ 'I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine.' " When he spoke disdainfully about preferring "the Jew who is revolutionary to the Jew who is a plutocrat," the result was not so felicitous. Dale never averts her eye from these occasions, but she manages to find a rationale for every...
...scofflaw represents the wave of the future. Harvard Sociologist David Riesman suspects that a majority of Americans have blithely taken to committing supposedly minor derelictions as a matter of course. Already, Riesman says, the ethic of U.S. society is in danger of becoming this: "You're a fool if you obey the rules...
...last week, Secretary of State George Shultz found surprisingly little disagreement on that, even in countries, like West Germany, where opposition to the Reagan Administration's use of economic pressure against Poland was once strong. The Jaruzelski regime seemed to know in advance that its latest "reforms" would fool hardly anybody. Last week, almost in anticipation of the cool Western reception to its legal changes, Poland announced that it would cut formal ties with the U.S. on educational and cultural matters, and "consider all visa applications from the United States with an eye to the interest and security...