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DIED. MOREY AMSTERDAM, 80ish, master of the one-liner who brought his cheerfully wisecracking persona from vaudeville to TV's The Dick Van Dyke Show; in Los Angeles...
...appears increasingly enfeebled; that, plus his legendary irascibility, may make it awkward if not impossible to force him to face the commission. Embattled and isolated, he refuses to give interviews or even to pick up the telephone; an aide who answered a call last week described the unrepentant hard-liner as "unapproachable." Yet if auguries are to be credited, the swelling inquiry may spill over and reach even the "Groot Krokodil" (Great Crocodile), as he is known in Afrikaans. Last week, after rains caused the Touws River to burst its banks, Botha's living room was knee-deep in water...
...point out that his opponent was soft on Fidel Castro to maintain the G.O.P.'s lock on Florida's powerful Cuban-American community. But Bob Dole has nothing on Bill Clinton. The President has been courting that community, and to them he is now a hard-liner after their own hearts. A Miami poll has found that 41% of Florida's Cuban Americans plan to vote for Clinton, almost double what he won in 1992, finally giving him a chance to take the state he lost by a squeaker in 1992. It is one of the biggest triumphs...
...Since the assassination, the peace efforts have been strained and the chasm between Israelis who support the land-for-peace formula and those opposed to it have increased. Earlier this year, four suicide bombings by Islamic militants shook Israelis' confidence in the peace process and helped lead to hard-liner Benjamin Netanyahu's election as Prime Minister. Since Netanyahu took office, relations between Israel and its Arab and Palestinian neighbors have been strained as Netanyahu drags his feet on implementing Rabin's peace plan. The rifts within Israel have also not recovered from the assassination, as the differences between secular...
...there anything left to say about Nirvana? The punk-rock trio, which helped define the sound of alternative rock before disbanding after the 1994 suicide of its lead singer, Kurt Cobain, has been written about, figuratively speaking, to death. In the liner notes to Nirvana's newly released live CD, From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah, bassist Krist Novoselic even declares, "Let all the analysis fall away like yellow, aged newsprint." If it were that easy, would O.J. still be in the news...