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...Peres and Holst flew to the Naval Air Station at Point Mugu, California, to brief Secretary of State Warren Christopher. He was amazed and swiftly telephoned the President, who expressed immediate support. Washington had been aware since the outset that secret talks were taking place, but had little idea of the pace and scope. "We gave them some inkling, but that's all," said a senior Israeli diplomat. The U.S. knew about four secret channels that the Israelis were operating with the P.L.O. and believed Israeli diplomats who said, in the words of a senior U.S. official, that nothing...
...slammed for inventing thoughts and dialogue for his new biography of Ted Kennedy. If no similar outcry greets Marilyn & Bobby: Her Final Affair, it is because tawdry "fact- based" TV movies have become too common to get riled over. This one, moreover, inoculates itself with a disclaimer at the outset: "A fictionalized account inspired by the public lives of Marilyn Monroe and Robert F. Kennedy." None of which can entirely excuse this USA Network movie from responsibility for breaking new ground in docudrama shamelessness...
...show that isn't dependent on plot surprises, or even plot development for that matter--from the outset, Marvin declares his crisis over his personal and sexual identity, and the rest is just a matter of assessing how the people in his life have figured into it. Tim Ewing astutely plays Marvin as a man with his life just barely under his control at all times, a seizure, literal or metaphorical, possible at any moment, alternately full of energy and anxiety, lusty happiness and distraught sleeplessness...
...Bosnia almost 10,000 U.N. troops help deliver relief under extremely dangerous conditions. U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali has requested 7,500 more soldiers to enforce so-called safe havens around six Muslim towns under Serbian siege. But that plan was flawed from the outset: many fear the safe areas will turn into permanent refugee camps guarded indefinitely by U.N. soldiers. And it is proving nearly impossible to implement. U.N. troops are routinely refused access to Muslim areas by Serb commanders, cannot shoot unless fired upon or intervene even when they witness / atrocities. Britain and France, who supply most...
...outset, Ashe states that his aim is to preserve his reputation. "No matter what I do, or where or when I do it, I feel the eyes of others on me, judging me," admits the man who may have taken his symbolic role as the only top-ranked black in a white sport too seriously. There are awkward moments in this book. Countering inevitable speculation about the source of HIV infection, he feels the need to testify that he has never been unfaithful to his wife and has never had a homosexual experience...