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...People keep thinking that because we didn't have a revolution we failed. We didn't fail. We're taking over the system from within," he said, adding, "the old leaders have lost the will to resist...
...investigative commission, headed by Andreas Dormer, the Dutch chief justice of the European Court, ran into a roadblock in attempts to probe the prince's financial transactions. Swiss authorities, who fiercely resist disclosure of bank records, warned that Donner would face arrest for "economic espionage" if he dared set foot on Swiss soil in his investigative capacity. Later, under Dutch pressure, the Swiss Cabinet scheduled a special meeting to decide what assistance, if any, to give the Donner commission...
...last resort: holing up in a hotel where he hates the food. Vidal manifests an unembarrassed narcissism about his appearance. "When I was a little boy," he says, "I looked just like the Gores -blond and pig-nosed. But growing older, I've grown more Vidal." He cannot resist a final Roman vanity: "I have the face now of one of the later, briefer Emperors...
sheer perversity behind that assignment: Vidal is surely aware that 50 is barely puberty in the life of a politician. Could he be subjecting himself to the chaos of political conventions because of an old obsession, the one prize life has denied him? How could a writer resist the fantasy: a hopelessly deadlocked convention; a sudden mammoth coming-to-trie-senses by the delegates; a whisper cascading into a roar that will not be gaveled into silence. And out into the glare of klieg lights and a forest of microphones there steps, at last, the Best...
...ambassadors in Africa have tried to reassure moderate leaders, but doubts remain that Washington would do much to help them resist aggression by ambitious Soviet clients. Says one moderate African President: "American credibility is now suspect. If the Soviets were blatantly to try to subvert my country tomorrow, I'd think we might get sympathetic, clucking noises out of Washington, but not much else...