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More miraculous is how it was made. Before agreeing to write and direct the movie, Gaghan got Warner Bros. to give him an unlimited research budget and no deadline. For a year and a half, he read books on the Middle East in his Malibu beach house and then, at...
Gaghan developed his own connections ("It's exactly like backpacking from hostel to hostel," he says of navigating the social byways of the oil industry) and traveled alone to Beirut. There he was abducted by Hizballah and rewarded with such colorful Fadlallah quotes as "People moved to terrorism are like...
Who leaked the letter? Early speculation centered on Richard Perle, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy and the Administration's most ardent critic of arms control. Perle flatly denied that he was the source of the leak. Defense Department officials pointed out that the leaked letter bore Weinberger...
"Ask Richard," snapped a U.S. official, referring to the Administration's most persistent and skillful critic of past arms-control agreements, Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle, who was present in Geneva and active behind the scenes on the American side. Perle says that while he does not consider the...
Fearful that Weinberger's presence in Geneva would doom any chance of a deal, Shultz, Regan and MacFarlane managed to keep him off the summit team, despite the Defense Secretary's fervent pleas to the President. The White House is trying to muzzle Perle as well, last week vetoing his...