Word: roles
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Pines is also an expert on one other vital aspect of the entire Arab-Israeli confrontation: U.S. capabilities and what role they might play in the area. "In terms of U.S. defense priorities, no other region in the world, save for Western Europe, is as important," contends Pines. "It is now almost impossible for a journalist without a defense perspective to analyze events in the Middle East, especially after this settlement...
Long before there was a New Hampshire, Shakespeare wrote of a "setter up and plucker down of kings," a role that the Granite State has, with variations, assumed to itself. Since 1952, in fact, setting up and plucking down Presidents has been a cottage industry in New Hampshire, along with summer camps and maple syrup. By holding the nation's earliest primary, New Hampshire sought and got an outrageous amount of press attention, partly because there is not much other news in February, partly because presidential politicking is a peculiarly American disease...
...National Party government of Prime Minister P.W. Botha is sitting nervously atop a scandal that steadily grows worse and worse. Playing the John Dean role, in this South African version of Watergate, is Eschel Rhoodie, 45, the former Secretary of Pretoria's Department of Information. Rhoodie, who is now living in self-imposed exile in Europe and South America, was in charge of a multimillion-dollar slush fund that his department used to secure favorable publicity for South Africa's policies in both the foreign and domestic press. To accomplish this end at home. Rhoodie has charged that...
Rhoodie contends that at least six Cabinet ministers, including P.W. Botha, knew about the information department's connection with The Citizen, as well as its role in other secret projects. All the officials concerned have denied this allegation, but the scandal has already led to the resignation of one ranking Cabinet member: former Minister of Information Cornelius P. Mulder, who was Rhoodie's supervisor. Some observers believe Vorster must surely have known about the slush fund; there are also suspicions that his awareness of the impending scandal may have been an important reason behind his sudden retirement...
Rhoodie is now hinting that he has a lot more to talk about. Among the rumored topics: bribery involving U.S. and other foreign officials and disclosure of Pretoria's role in backing the Biafran rebels during the Nigerian civil war. Two weeks ago, Rhoodie had a rendezvous in Paris with General Hendrik van den Bergh, 64, former head of South Africa's notorious Bureau of State Security (BOSS), and an industrialist named Josias van Zyl, 31, who offered Rhoodie a sales job in one of his companies. What the two men wanted in return was Rhoodie...