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Another North memo, prepared for the President last January, also outlined the rationale for beginning direct U.S. arms shipments to Iran. Reagan evidently did not read the three-page document. Instead, Poindexter apparently gave him an oral briefing and then signed Reagan's initials at the bottom. The White House was at pains to point to the paper's justification of weapons deliveries as a way of fostering ties to Iran's moderate elements. Yet the Senate report says that Casey had devised this line of reasoning to cloud the true arms-for-hostages nature of the arrangement. The document...
...headline of the full-page advertisement that appeared last week in 22 English-language newspapers across South Africa said simply, LET THE A.N.C. SPEAK FOR ITSELF. The ad then urged State President P.W. Botha to legalize the outlawed African National Congress, which that very day was holding a 75th-anniversary celebration at its headquarters-in-exile in Lusaka, Zambia. Prominently featured in the advertisement was a silhouette of Nelson Mandela, the A.N.C.'s symbolic leader, who is serving out a life sentence at Pollsmoor Prison, near Cape Town. The advertisement, placed by 18 antiapartheid and church groups, asserted that "there...
Last week the case came to a startling and unprecedented conclusion. The KGB official who had engineered Berkhin's arrest was fired, and there were warnings that more dismissals were in the offing. Even more surprising was the way the firing was announced: on the front page of Pravda. In a statement signed by KGB Chief Viktor Chebrikov, the offending officer was castigated as a discredit to his profession. Chebrikov pledged to take measures to "ensure the strict observance of law" by state security forces...
Aquino may have more success with the constitution. The 118-page charter, written by an Aquino-appointed committee, calls for a referendum on renewing the leases of U.S. military bases, a cutback in presidential powers and the establishment of a two-chamber congress. Aquino says the document is "worthy of the great collective act that made it possible: the rising of the Filipino people to vindicate their voice...
There are other things in this novel that Roth's detractors will probably dislike. Nathan, a self-conscious fellow, does not allow the reader to forget that the words on the page are made up, inventions: "Being Zuckerman is one long performance and the very opposite of what is thought of as being oneself." So much for sincere, straight-from-the-shoulder storytelling. People who want to know what really happens in a work of fiction, a peculiar but widespread desire, are going to find themselves bewildered. Only one incontestable fact can be gleaned from the book: The Counterlife...