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...interview, Gaddafi went into an adjoining room where a wide-screen color television was still carrying the live broadcast from the White House. Sadat was speaking. The colonel's entourage stepped back respectfully, leaving Gaddafi to stand alone in the middle of the room. He watched and listened for a few moments, then turned and walked out. On his face was the same wan smile as there had been earlier when he was given the note. It was a smile that connoted grim satisfaction, the "I-told-you-so" smile of someone who has just witnessed an ugly scene...
...their homelands, without their rights for self-determination, without their rights to establish an independent state, there is no peace, no stability, no security, no settlement. My condition for peace is a just condition. I'm asking that my people, the Palestinian people, have the opportunity to live in peace in their independent state as human beings. Your President used to speak a lot about human rights, but where are his human rights when he approaches Palestinian rights? He completely forgets these rights in this moment. He is only looking through Israeli glasses and from Israeli angles...
...like war. I would like to return to my work, my original profession as a civil engineer. Every Palestinian would like to live in peace. But if you are pushing us into a corner with this false treaty, we haven't any other choice but to defend ourselves. [Arafat mocked the prospect of limited self-rule for a Palestinian state held out by the Camp David agreements.] Self-rule? Self-rule without any control of the land and even the water -the water for drinking? If you were in my position, would you accept it, this new slavery...
What finer homage to Pianist Arthur Rubinstein on reaching 92? For 17 hours Radio France broadcast Rubinstein's greatest performances, followed by a live concert at Paris' Theatre des Champs Élysées programmed by the maestro himself. Age and approaching blindness apart, Rubinstein was well up to the celebration. "Composing a concert is like composing a menu," he announced, explaining his choices of Debussy, Bach, Rachmaninoff, Mozart and Schubert. "I believe in musical digestion. If you start with light pieces and play a 45-minute sonata after the interlude, it's like starting dinner with...
...parliament since 1946. Sometimes called the Ugocentric for his strong individuality, he was also nicknamed Cassandra for his pessimism. But he was perhaps best known as the Conscience of Italy for his personal integrity and his not always popular insistence that Italians must work harder, pay more taxes and live within their means...