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Militants seeking independence for Croatia have struck inside the U.S. in the past. In December 1975 Croatian nationalists were suspected of planting a bomb in a luggage locker at La Guardia Airport, killing 11 people and injuring 75. Less than a year later, Croats hijacked a TWA jet traveling from New York City to Chicago and eventually diverted it to Paris. As part of that operation, the group also planted a bomb at Grand Central Terminal, which killed a police officer who tried to defuse it. In June 1980 Croatian "freedom fighters" detonated a bomb inside the museum...
...FIRST TASK OF A STATESMAN, QUIPPED THE LATE New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, is to disappoint supporters and break campaign promises. By that standard, Bill Clinton was off to a flying start the week before he moved into the White House...
Radio is the last intimate medium. For harried commuters and lonely homebodies, it is mouth-to-ear resuscitation, a voice crying in their wilderness. In the '30s, radio carried potent political messages, from Franklin Roosevelt's Fireside Chats to Fiorello La Guardia's reading of the comics during a newspaper strike to Father Charles Coughlin's charismatic hatemongering. Today that voice is still as personal as a conscience or a demon. Especially at midday, when the bass thud of a barroom rock band announces the arrival of Rush H. Limbaugh III, 41. "Ensconced in the Attila the Hun Chair...
Oppenheimer, who somehow obtained secret Communist Party documents, reveals how close reformers came to approving a plan to ease Fidel into a Prime Minister's job and ease out socialism at the October 1991 Party Congress. His reporting is solid and engrossing, especially on the Ochoa-De La Guardia drug scandal and Cuba's involvement with Panama's now deposed Manuel Noriega. Oppenheimer claims that Cuba was set to begin running Panama's intelligence apparatus just before the 1989 U.S. invasion. He also deals with Cuba's silent issue, the black majority who are not eager to see the white...
...spent more time on this inquisition than was eaten up by traffic at La Guardia. Short of couples therapy, will nothing get us out of this trough? Maybe the Washington comment is a way out, a four-lane expressway to freedom...