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...From his Labor seat in parliament, he was named Foreign Minister in 1966 and remained in office for eight years--still a record for that post. After serving as chairman of the Knesset's foreign affairs and defense committee, the dovish Eban left parliament in 1988 after 29 years. He continues to campaign for peace with the Palestinians through speeches and writings. Author of a forthcoming book on post-cold war diplomacy, he's currently in New York City preparing a PBS film on the Middle East peace process. Will new hard-line Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threaten its path...
Brisk and churning, ID4 offers no grand vision, other than the fact that, in this post-cold war era, it looks to outer space to find new enemies worth hating, fighting and blasting into little squishy pieces. "The U.S. is desperately in search of an enemy," says Paul Verhoeven, who has directed some stunning sci-fi (RoboCop, Total Recall) and the equally otherworldly Showgirls. "The communists were the enemy, and the Nazis before them, but now that wonderful enemy everyone can fight has been lost. Alien sci-fi films give us a terrifying enemy that's politically correct. They...
...issue: outsourcing, the company's use of subcontractors and non-union workers at McDonnell Douglas plants for labor once performed by union machinists. The practice has recently led to costly strikes at Boeing and General Motors, and is especially threatening to workers already faced with cutbacks in the post-Cold War defense industry. "With the dramatic cutbacks in defense spending over the past few years, a company like McDonnell Douglas needs to be as supple as it can," says TIME's James Graff. "It affords a company much more flexibility if it can use smaller, non-union companies to make...
...shore up the franc, ultimately turning his back on leftist economics. In foreign policy, Mitterrand, though instinctively hostile to U.S. domination, nonetheless proved a staunch ally at critical moments--like the 1991 Gulf War, to which he committed French combat troops. Determined to secure France's position in the post-cold war era, Mitterrand threw his full weight behind the cause of European integration, with the Franco-German axis as its motor. Mitterrand also launched some $6 billion worth of landmarks, firmly placing his imprint on the Paris skyline. His imprint too was in lawbooks for abolishing the death penalty...
There is more to these games than merely giving government employees the chance to play James Bond. The point is to test the preparedness of a secretive task force organized to combat the possibility--eventuality, some would say--of nuclear terrorism in the U.S. Welcome to Fail Safe, the post-cold war edition...