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The result of all the effort and encomiums is mixed. The concentration-camp survivor has brought hundreds of Nazis and collaborators to court, but they are only a small percentage of the guilty. Legal procedures are slow; indifference and ignorance have become the order of the day. To reverse this...
The prosecution's star witness so far has been Maria Schrallhammer, Sunny's maid for 23 years. On the day of the first coma in 1979, she testified, she had heard "madame" moaning and had entered the bedroom: "She was rattling, and I thought she would die any...
Reagan's advisers have been sufficiently chagrined to seek a remedy. Chief of Staff James Baker wants to organize a committee of insiders that would track all issues likely to affect women and racial minorities. Such a committee might reconsider a small but revealing question: Should the White House...
The grim news from Poland may intrude into the intimate moments of White House life this week. But Christmas, with its echoing cry for brotherhood, its pleas for peace on earth, is a necessary annual nourishment for the presidency, just as important in some ways as the tax receipts. The...
Moreover, the reduced deficit has been achieved by one of the most severe spending cutbacks imposed by any nation in recent history. Expenditures for capital construction, for example, declined from $32 billion in 1980, to $22 billion this year, a drop of nearly one-third. In the first half of...