Word: franklin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...barbarity." But did Israel attack the U.N. base deliberately? Lebanese say yes. Israel vehemently says no, it was an accident. Last week the U.N. reported on its own investigation by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali's top military adviser. The verdict clobbered Israel. "It is unlikely," wrote Major General Franklin van Kappen in his six-page report, "that the shelling of the U.N. compound was the result of gross technical and/or procedural errors...
...included real Roosevelt martinis (3 to 1) at the Tidal Basin construction site. It ended with a private White House dinner of lamb and artichokes at $10,000 a plate and grossed about half a million. Bill and Hillary Clinton were eloquent in praise of their heroes Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt to their black-tie audience of 200. Actors Jane Alexander and Edward Herrmann, who had played the Roosevelts on television, gave readings, and there was a scratchy old recording of the real Eleanor singing (sort of) High Hopes, which brought both gales of laughter and misty eyes...
...forgotten footnote to the White House proceedings and, indeed, to the whole memorial idea. In the warm glow of the White House it was easy to ignore the growing clamor at the gates about a memorial that is taking $42 million in tax money and has no depiction of Franklin Roosevelt in a wheelchair. (Or, for that matter, of Eleanor's fur stole, now considered too controversial...
Musing further on these converging trends, Martin suggests diplomatically that "the movement has become sufficiently mature and multifaceted that no single person can dominate it in the way Franklin's father did. And it's not clear yet if Franklin has any desire for that kind of influence." In fact, Franklin has been relatively quiet about what he hopes to do with the ministry, bowing in part to Billy and in part to other board members. He will admit to wanting to reach out more to the inner city ("We're losing in this country to Islam") and to make...
...raining in Sydney, Australia, and Franklin Graham is nervous. Once he might have slugged back a Scotch; now a diet Coke will have to do. It is always tough being a stand-in, and worse still if you're substituting for a legend. In fact, when illness forced his father out of this series of revival meetings, the organizing committee in Sydney simply dissolved itself. Ultimately another group decided to take a chance on Franklin but moved the revival from a downtown venue that could have held 50,000 people to an open, grass amphitheater--no seats, just turf--with...