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...failure in leadership handicapped Israel when dealing with its most recent crisis, the Palestinian uprising. Friedman compares the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to a fault line that for 20 years was capable of absorbing slight tremors so well that many forgot about its existence. But the earthquake finally struck in the form of the intifada--the Palestinian uprising of anger couched in vows to throw off "Israeldom...
Nation editor Robert T. Zintl never forgot how LIFE magazine in 1969 drove home the human cost of the Viet Nam War by publishing photographs of 217 of the 242 American servicemen killed in a single week. Today far more Americans die each week from gunfire. Zintl proposed that TIME undertake a project to find out who the victims are and how they...
...phenomenal recall of names, faces and dates. Now his steel-trap mind is rusty. In a recent interview, Barry's fatigue overwhelmed him. His face sagged, his eyelids drooped. He talked haltingly, stopping often to gaze at the far wall of his cavernous office. He mixed up dates and forgot a name. At one point, a pitcher of ice water in his hand, he poised haltingly over his coffee cup as his face betrayed mounting confusion over the disappearance of his water glass, which he had earlier placed behind him. "It's just like an airport novel," muses a city...
...Conspicuously missing was the incumbent in that post, the moderate Zhao Ziyang, whose whereabouts have remained unknown since late last month, when he held sympathetic talks with student representatives in Tiananmen. The officials applauded as Deng hailed the soldiers. "Facing a life-threatening situation," he said, "our troops never forgot the people, never forgot the party, never forgot the country's interest." He had condolences for the families of soldiers killed during the upheaval but not a word for the victims in the protesters' ranks...
...about to recommend that the Core be abandoned," says Professor of Government Jorge I. Dominguez, who heads the Foreign Cultures subcommittee. "It is not because we forgot to consider the question, but that we decided that [although] it is not a perfect system, [it is] better than the alternatives...