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...Defense Minister, but immediately named him a Minister Without Portfolio, thereby minimizing the damage to himself and to Sharon. As predicted, Begin then appointed Moshe Arens, Israel's Ambassador to the U.S. for the past year, as Sharon's replacement at the Defense Ministry. The result, as Interior Minister Yosef Burg put it, was that Begin had made no concessions "to the Americans or to the Arab world" or otherwise changed his government's policies...
...shock waves throughout Israel and indeed throughout the world. It was hailed in the U.S. and Western Europe as a remarkable example of self-criticism by a democratic society. Said the New York Times: "How rare the nation that seeks salvation by revealing such shame." In France, Interior Minister Gaston Defferre remarked, "This report is the honor of Israel. It gives the world a new lesson in democracy." The Italian Communist paper L'Unita called the report "a turning point for Israel," while Italian Journalist Arrigo Levi wrote in La Stampa of Turin: "It would be difficult to find...
Bunshaft's Lever House consisted of two glass slabs. A one-story horizontal slab, partly on stilts, is laid parallel to Park Avenue. A 24-story vertical slab intersects the horizontal one and faces East 54th Street. The openings under the stilts lead to an interior court. The building occupies only 25% of the permissible space, for dramatic effect and to let light into the offices...
Ironically, Andropov may owe his rise to the bungling of one of the nation's most notorious secret police chiefs, Lavrenti Beria. After the death of Stalin in 1953, the tiny Georgian with the trademark pincenez tried to bully his way to power by incorporating the Ministry of the Interior into his vast security empire. That incautious move roused a vengeance-minded Politburo to action. Beria was arrested and executed. First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev, in a famous secret speech to the 20th Party Congress in 1956, vowed that the state security forces would be subservient to the principles of "revolutionary...
...hunters' magazine to give the deer's side of the story. Don't look for lectures on chastity in Cosmopolitan or Penthouse. Don't expect defenses of Interior Secretary James Watt in an environmental journal. The unstated premise of all specialized magazines is: Get your balance elsewhere; we're writing for like-minded people...