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...respect for the author. Notwithstanding the narrow-sightedness, self-righteousness and infuriating egotism that pervade Chutzpah, a quasi-autobiographical reflection on being Jewish in America, it's hard for a principled liberal not to like Dershowitz. He is, after all (to use a completely inappropriate metaphor), our patron saint...
...some degree he is right. The P.L.O. is in disarray and is no longer heavily subsidized by Arab states. King Hussein, who supported Saddam Hussein, needs to work his way back into Washington's favor to get U.S. aid flowing again. The Soviet Union, Syria's longtime patron, now supports the American strategy, seeing the Middle East as a low-cost arena for building up credit with Washington. That support was crystallized in Soviet Foreign Minister Alexander Bessmertnykh's announcement that Moscow would co-sponsor the peace conference, which will require it to restore full diplomatic ties with Israel first...
...near Malibu, Calif. The ordinary problems and passions of the world seemingly behind him, Tom reduces his ambitions simply to surviving. But his cloistered existence is disrupted by the arrival of his older brother Brian, a crooked contractor on the run, and an unexpected love affair with his devoted patron Gray. Tom rescues his brother. Gray rescues Tom. And Monette drives home his message: there is life after AIDS...
...lured by the promise of high-priced modeling jobs. Instead they wound up working as nude table dancers at several strip clubs. The women, billed at one club as "Gorby's Girls," say they were kept as virtual prisoners in a locked apartment during the day. Eventually, a bar patron learned of the group's plight and called police. While the Soviet strippers face deportation, local citizens are offering financial help and even proposals of marriage. Immigration officials, who charged the club owners with hiring illegal workers, are investigating reports that many other Soviet women may have been imported...
...Palestinian problem are as dim as they have ever been. Yes, the U.S. is committed to pushing extra hard for Israeli flexibility, to pay back Arab governments for their support of the coalition and to cement American credibility in the Arab world. But even Israel's No. 1 patron cannot make Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir budge unless he chooses to. And he does not. "We shall stand firm," says Shamir, against "attempts to establish a new pattern of Middle East arrangements...