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...Saudi officers, such peaceful incursions across the border by Iraqi troops seeking food and water are common. Some of them defect; others, fearing for the lives of their families, are allowed to return. While the Saudis debriefed their Iraqi guests, Schwarzkopf discovered one of their trucks had a transmission leak and a battery without water. "That shows the poor state of their maintenance," he said...
Thatcher's anti-German feelings seemed further confirmed by last week's leak of a memorandum written by her private secretary Charles Powell after a seminar she held with several well-known experts on Germany. They had to explain to the Prime Minister that the countries of Eastern Europe actually wanted German investment and that this "did not necessarily equate to subjugation." The Powell memo alleged that "abiding" characteristics of the Germans, "in alphabetical order," included "aggressiveness, assertiveness, bullying, egotism, inferiority complex, sentimentality." The concept of permanent national character is generally fatuous, and in this case Powell's words make...
Last week Wall Street was wondering whether it was the fellow behind the tree. Bush Administration officials floated the idea that they might consider raising the tiny tax on stock and bond transactions -- one-third of 1% -- to help erase the deficit. The leak looked serious because security-transfer taxes are easy to collect, politically painless and potentially lucrative...
...taken enough abuse. You know, in January I was so overwhelmed. It just exploded into a public nightmare for me. So I reacted, frankly, by not taking as much care of myself. I worried about it. I read all the newspaper stories. I worried about what the next leak was going to be. I worried about the impact on Dad and my role in this thing. I gained a little weight. I didn't eat well. But you have two choices in life when you're faced with a challenge: you can either rise to it and take care...
...Thornburgh then ordered an investigation into a damaging leak about an FBI probe of the office of Philadelphia Democratic Congressman William Gray III, which proved to be ham-handed. Deputy Attorney General Ayer resigned when Thornburgh refused to turn the investigation over to the office charged with examining internal wrongdoing. Press secretary David Runkel and Robert Ross Jr., Thornburgh's right-hand man for internal affairs, fumbled on lie-detector tests and were reassigned. Even leak-buster Thornburgh strapped himself to a polygraph to prove he was cleaner than Caesar's wife...