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...Interior Minister Rudolf Seiters, a confidant of Chancellor Helmut Kohl's, took responsibility for mishandling the case and resigned in July, closely followed by the chief federal prosecutor, Alexander von Stahl. The head of the antiterrorism division, Rainer Hoffmeyer, has been sharply criticized and may be forced to resign. There have been so many demands for reforming or disbanding GSG-9 that Kohl paid a highly publicized visit to the unit to praise the dead officer and deplore "attempts to make a martyr of his murderer...
...then the majority leader: "He stared at me down that long nose of his and said, 'I've never known a reporter without a character flaw. What's yours?' " Sidey did not confess then, but he is willing to come clean now: "I've always been more interested in interior America than in events overseas. If I were given a choice between assignments in Omaha and Paris, I'd choose Omaha." Omaha, not to mention Sidey's readers and colleagues, may be inclined to view this lapse leniently...
...been Yugoslavia's Dalmatian coast, which once brought $2 billion a year into the province, now the Republic, of Croatia. But that was before war ravaged charming ports such as Dubrovnik. Croatian tourist officials are now repairing damaged buildings and discreetly moving refugees from beach hotels into the interior. Still, recovery is slow: car-rental agencies in neighboring countries have inserted into their contracts clauses canceling insurance the minute their vehicles enter Croatia...
...dialogue alone could not. When she returns in what she imagines is triumph to the studio that dropped her two decades before, she envisions glories to come in As If We Never Said Goodbye. If the scene were spoken, her delusion would be pathetic. The song, in effect an interior monologue, defers her disillusionment to celebrate her undiminished presence. The assertive With One Look and the lilting, wistful New Ways to Dream are engaging paeans to bygone achievements. Her pretty boy's 11 numbers amount to even less. Only his cynical anthem to ambition, Sunset Boulevard, derives added power from...
Resolving a standoff between environmentalists and agribusiness, the Interior Department announced a tentative agreement with Florida and that state's vegetable farmers and sugar industry on a $465 million plan to restore the Everglades. Phosphorus pollution from fertilizer and the diversion of water by overdevelopment have contributed to the transformation of what was a 4 million-acre freshwater marsh into a murky 2 million-acre swamp...