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...Ford obviously was not. "You won't do that because you are a human being," he said last week. His former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger finds it "very dubious" that either of the major powers would really have the psychological capacity to strike first. He doubts the "madman" theory and the idea that missiles might be launched by computer failure. The human minds in charge of today's arsenals will still reject the holocaust as long as there is a fragment of evidence that it doesn't have to happen. There will always be that fragment...
...midst of an identity crisis. It is a fascinating interpretation, which appears to owe something to Richard Nixon, and Williamson manages to make the familiar sound fresh and exciting. In the "Tomorrow" speech, for example, his words come out in spurts, as if they were spoken by a madman, which by that point Macbeth very nearly is. Weber, by contrast, is always predictable, and she seems to know only one way to make a point-loudly...
...skeptical view in Washington is that the CIA might have wanted much of the story to become public. The motive: by portraying Gaddafi as the madman behind a presidential assassination attempt, they could justify covert action aimed at toppling the Libyan leader. Even if that theory were true, however, it did not in itself undermine the credibility of the evidence...
...referred as a detached observer); his memory of actions those other "Milligans" took was, however, murky at best. Increasingly, the doctors came to feel it would be grossly unjust to imprison Billy Milligan like a common rapist. Milligan had been unaware of the actions he had committed as madman "Ragen," almost as if he were under the influence of a potent drug...
...Gaddafi cannot be dismissed as a madman. "He comes across as cool, self-disciplined, shrewd," reports TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, who has interviewed the Libyan leader twice. "He radiates authority, confidence and self-control." Little is known about Gaddafi's private life except that he lives austerely, sometimes spending days meditating alone in the desert. In Libya,. Gaddafi's eclectic revolutionary ideology, which he calls the "Third International Theory," is summed up in his three-volume Green Book. He describes his theory as "an alternative to capitalist materialism and Communist atheism." Gaddafi has transformed Libya into...