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...Fast's message is perhaps simply that people should think more about what they are doing--things are not always what they seem to be. There is a parallel to be drawn between Dan Lavette and the country he helped build, when Fast says of his character...
...taken place in Washington, with Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin as the intermediary. (Some U.S. officials regard Dobrynin, who has been the Kremlin's man in Washington since J.F.K.'s day, as a "Kissinger holdover" and wanted to "cut him down a peg or two" by opening a parallel back-channel in Moscow. When Vance pressed Soviet leaders to use U.S. Ambassador Malcolm Toon as a conduit for SALT proposals, they balked.) But even on the back-channel there was little hard bargaining until the recent talks with Gromyko. Though both sides made compromises, Moscow seemed to bend...
...League for Human Rights, with other groups that loosely line up behind the "Israeli peace movement," are trying to combat the parallel legal systems which they claim characterize the Israeli machinery of justice. The civil law system is shadowed by a hierarchy of military courts and "Emergency Regulations" that have been in operation since the days of British rule in Palestine. The Israeli Public Prosecutor has the power to determine which set of laws will apply in a given case. As a result, many Palestinians in occupied territories have been arrested without warrents or show-cause stipulation under military...
...parallel claim was made by Robert Bloom, now Deputy Comptroller of the Currency and a career bureaucrat who was acting comptroller when Lance's nomination was approved by the Senate. Appearing before a House banking subcommittee, Bloom fielded a barrage of questions about why he had not alerted Congress to Lance's banking practices...
Daughter of immigrants from Palermo, Costanza began her career as a switchboard operator. Over 24 years, she rose to executive assistant to a Rochester entrepreneur, and carried out a parallel career in city and state politics. For Vice Mayor Midge (she uses her formal name, Margaret, only on voting machines), politics led to an acquaintanceship with Carter-and, ultimately, her present job. Never married, Costanza lives alone in a Foggy Bottom condominium and devotes virtually all of her waking hours to the job. (The man in her life died last year...