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...PROPHET OUTCAST by Isaac Deutscher. 543 pages. Oxford...
...difference is that the fanatic in power soon proves to be a monster; the fanatic who has lost his power sometimes assumes an aura of gallantry. Biographer Isaac Deutscher seems especially susceptible to this gallantry. An ex-Trotskyite and a respected writer on Communism, Deutscher has turned out an exciting, exacting biography that is very likely definitive, but he cannot prevent a touch of hero worship from creeping into his prose. Trotsky, Deutscher says, "strove to rally his fighters to the most impossible of causes. He sought to set them against every power in the world: against fascism, bourgeois democracy...
Tourists for Sodom. Many outsiders who begin as shareholders eventually move into actual property ownership by buying a Rassco enterprise and letting Rassco manage it for a fee. Nazareth's new buildings, for example, are largely owned by Memphis, Tenn., investors. With Rassco, several British millionaires, including Sir Isaac Wolfson and Charles Clore, jointly own G.U.S.-Rassco Ltd., a company affiliate that sets up small industries. Stern is happy to sell off enterprises quickly; sales give foreign investors material and emotional ties to Israel and, more importantly in a capital-short nation, provide funds for further enterprises. Already, although...
...North, Guiteau stepped from behind a bench, walked within a few feet of the President and shot him in the back. "My God, what is this!" Garfield cried, toppling forward. Guiteau was captured immediately. He pleaded insanity of the "Abrahamic" variety-like Abraham in murderous pursuit of Isaac, he was in the command of a wrathful God "Let your verdict be that it was the Deity's act not mine," he told his jurors, but they took only 65 minutes to condemn him to death. Garfield, cheerful and brave throughout his struggle for life, died 80 days after...
...Security Council, which vote separately and secretly. Last week four candidates got the required majorities right away, but it took four ballots in the Security Council and three in the General Assembly to decide the contest for the fifth seat, which finally went to Senegal's Isaac Forster, 60, former president of his nation's supreme court and the first World Court member from south-of-the-Sahara Africa. The other justices-elect...