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Americans cannot plead ignorance of the lasting consequences of a war carried through to unconditional surrender--our Southern states, three-quarters of a century after their terrible battering down and occupation, are still far from having recovered even their material prosperity. (italics mine...
...Saturday morning three more missiles fell on Tel Aviv. This time 10 people were injured, but again no one was killed. President Bush and British Prime Minister John Major separately telephoned Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Bush at 3 a.m. Washington time, to plead again for restraint. After the Israeli Cabinet met in a concrete bunker on Saturday, the government once more assured Washington that it would not retaliate now. The U.S. installed in Israel two batteries of the Patriot antimissiles, manned by American servicemen, the first time the U.S. had participated directly in Israel's defense. The government said...
Cheney decided he would not beg Congress for the money now, only to return later and plead for more. He ordered the Navy not to try an end run by seeking out friends on Capitol Hill to find the funds. Then he courageously killed the program. Said Cheney: "If we cannot spend the taxpayers' money wisely, we will not spend...
Down below, the lions stalked one another, plainly sobered by the moment but relishing their time in the spotlight. In the Senate the towering Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York stood in the back row in brown suede shoes to plead his case. Massachusetts' Ted Kennedy, not so long ago a wild political youngster, rose as a silver-haired patriarch. Near him, Iowa's Tom Harkin, popping pills to settle an unruly stomach, his hair a little too long for a true corn-belt troubadour, watched and waited to gather up some of the moment's somber glory. History...
...that was missing was a small boy to tug at Lew Wasserman's sleeve and plead...