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...while demanding that Arab nations end their state of belligerency with Israel. He says, "Arafat and his ilk are the biggest supporters of the murderer in Baghdad. The time has come for the international community to distance itself from this terrorist organization." That process is already under way. Says Samuel Lewis, former U.S. ambassador to Israel: "The Administration has learned the need to deal with the Arab states at least in parallel with the Palestinians...
...Samuel A. Tiano, director of the regional VA office in Honolulu until a recent transfer, says dismissingly of the bush vets, "Some of these people would live this way if they had not been to Vietnam. We have some who are always wanting this and wanting that." But such service requests, says Tiano's boss, Edward Derwinski, the Secretary of Veterans' Affairs, are exactly what the veterans should be making. Says he: "The customer is always right." Derwinski, whose department has been embarrassed by recent reports of negligence at VA hospitals, concedes that his bureaucracy has not always acted compassionately...
Should foreign airlines be allowed to hold major stakes in U.S. carriers? The old answer, motivated by national pride and security concerns, was no. The new answer, influenced by the dire financial condition of many U.S. airlines, is yes -- within limits. Last week Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner increased the allowable size of a foreign carrier's stake in a U.S. airline to 49% of equity, up from...
WAITING FOR GODOT. Samuel Beckett may be gone, but his best-known play proves immortal in this production by the Virginia Stage Company's slyly funny artistic director, Charles Towers...
Much in the style of Liberia's late President Samuel Doe, Siad Barre, a onetime policeman who seized power in a military coup in 1969, sealed his own fate by depending more and more on his kinsmen and overreacting to any challenge to his autocratic rule. Former U.S. diplomat Chester Crocker, a professor at Georgetown University, calls Siad Barre an "old-style, feudal, tribal chieftain." The country is ethnically homogeneous -- 98.8% are Somalis -- so there are no significant tribal hatreds. But its 8 million people are split into rival clans that have been battling one another for centuries...