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Bush is mildly disappointed with the response from Europe, Britain and France excepted. He is pleased as punch that Mikhail Gorbachev stepped up to be counted with the U.S. Japan came through pretty well; more is expected. The President knows he must recast relations with Israel, design new approaches for Syria and Iran. And those are just the tasks that he faces over his Eastern ocean horizon. At his back and underfoot is his own nation, supportive and giving for the moment, but restive and argumentative and feeling the strains of a new age dawning...
Almost everything in the Middle East argues for pessimism. The old animosities reach out of antiquity and recast themselves in modern terms. Yet Hartman presses on. With a sure sense of history but no fear of it, he is guided by an old Talmudic saying: "It is not up to you to finish the work, but neither are you free not to take...
Syria. For almost as long as President Hafez Assad has aimed for military parity with Israel, the Soviet Union has been only too willing to help. For years Moscow has supplied Damascus with interceptors, attack bombers, surface- to-air missiles, tanks and artillery. But Moscow is now seeking to recast its role as troublemaker in the Middle East to that of peacemaker. In November the Soviet Ambassador to Syria, Alexander Zotov, suggested that Damascus abandon its dream of parity and instead embrace "reasonable defensive sufficiency." Zotov acknowledged that one motive for the decision to pursue a less aggressive approach...
...Prince material is, well, batty. Several of his songs appear in the film, but Prince uses the album to retell the story and recast himself as the Dark Knight's alter ego. If that seems weird, no one seems bothered. The Batman sound track hit No. 1 on the Billboard chart, and contains some of Prince's wildest and most soulful work since Purple Rain...
This extraordinary history of the French Revolution begins with a three- story-high plaster elephant standing guard in the Place de la Bastille. Commissioned by the triumphant Emperor Napoleon, eventually to be recast in the bronze of captured cannons, the elephant was designed to make Parisians forget their revolutionary past and dream of an imperial future. Its real destiny -- like the question of what to remember -- proved quite different. "By 1830, when revolution revisited Paris, the elephant was in an advanced state of decomposition," writes Harvard historian Simon Schama. "One tusk had dropped off, and the other was reduced...