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...attempted to paralyze some Western countries by making hostages of the foreign nationals caught in his grip. He sought to fragment his fellow Arabs by pitting the poor against the rich. He tried to crack the global economic sanctions imposed against him by making a hasty and generous peace with Iran. And he attempted to exploit anti-Americanism, always a potent force, by casting U.S. intervention in the gulf as a case of Yankee imperialism run amuck...
...alarms was Doe, still holed up with a few hundred loyalist troops inside the executive mansion. Looking back over the disastrous war, which has now cost some 5,000 lives in the past seven months, U.S. officials could only wonder how their $500 million in a decade of generous aid had ended like this...
...workers praise Pauley as generous, without pretension, easy to work with -- in short, a nice human being. "I think she is the most civil and least neurotic person I've ever met in television," says David Browning, who was hired from CBS to produce her new show. "What I always admired about her," says Brokaw, "was that she was absolutely determined not to be seduced by bright lights, big city." Cynthia Samuels, a former Today producer who now runs Channel One, the schoolroom newscast, enthuses, "She is emblematic of the best of this generation...
When the quiet, slightly rumpled New York Times national editor took over the Inquirer in 1972, it was considered one of the 10 worst big-city newspapers in the country. He quickly assembled an enterprising staff and gave it generous amounts of time, money and column inches to tackle tough subjects and tangle with public figures. He permitted some reporters to work as long as two years on a single investigative project. The results were an impressive 17 Pulitzer Prizes in 18 years, including one this year for a five-part series on the safety of the nation's blood...
McCartney's token nod to the public good came with the concert's connection to an environmental group called Friends of the Earth. The group sponsored the tour and received a generous four-page spread in the 100-page program...