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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...control thriller. The book features a Vice President who manipulates his doddering Commander in Chief into secretly launching a killer satellite. The hero is a Montana-born arms negotiator who exudes an "aura of separateness (that) made him seem . . . strong but elusive." For readers who might draw parallels to present- day political figures, Hart offers the standard disclaimer: "Any similarity to persons living or dead is coincidental...
...Sunday afternoon Kimche took McFarlane and North to a meeting in a London apartment. The Iranian contact turned out to be not very direct: it was not a government official but Ghorbanifar, the expatriate arms dealer. Yaacov Nimrodi, an Israeli arms merchant, was also present. Kimche had represented Ghorbanifar as being politically astute, but McFarlane found him to be a "man of no integrity" who was obsessed with arms and insensitive to the political concerns of the U.S. McFarlane returned to Washington and gave a pessimistic report to the NSC. Shultz was traveling in Europe but sent advice...
...Each arena holds its own memories," says Erving, who was not thinking of wine or golf clubs when he announced on opening day that this will be his final season. Dr. J's best going-away present has been the sight of the Phoenix fans bedecked in surgical caps and masks for his last house call. "I'm savoring a lot of old moves and a lot of old players," he says, "because they should be savored. These buildings house so many ghosts...
...textbooks "so clearly take a religious point of view and present it in a one-sided manner as the truth...
...College's ivy-covered walls. On their way here many have overcome obstacles which, to their wealthier classmates, might have seemed insurmountable. But at the same time, economically disadvantaged students must often juggle an immense financial burden between two very disparate lives--home and college; their past and their present...