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...roas meat with their hands and watch knights in armor joust on horseback. At the Arabian Nights, sheiks steal gossamer-clad princesses during dinner shows. Orange County's most famous golf course, the Grand Cypress resort, has reconstructed the layout of the hallowed Old Course at St. Andrews in Scotland. The Florida Peabody Hotel copies a ritual of the original Peabody in Memphis: every day at the appointed hour, mallard ducks waddle off the elevator to wade in the lobby's marble fountain...
...about the international debt crisis, to become the other half of a reporting-writing team. Gwynne talked to federal regulatory agencies and banking sources in the U.S., while Beaty followed the B.C.C.I. paper trail to Atlanta, where he interviewed Bert Lance, and London, where he paid a visit to Scotland Yard. At the same time, TIME correspondents in bureaus around the world were tracking down leads in 11 countries, often going at several simultaneously. "This is by far the most exciting story I've ever worked on," says Gwynne. "It seemed as though every door we opened led down...
...killing of the Jordanian prime minister, the 1982 assasination of President Gemayel of Lebanon, the 1983 attacks on the U.S. Embassy and U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, the 1986 attempt to blow up an E1 A1 airliner in London and the 1988 bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland...
...intrinsically a part of his time that its tagedies soon become his tragedies. As the common "older man" of the eighties buying into the Reagan dream, Rabbit is in less control than ever. Current events foreshadow his own vicissitudes in a Joycean way: the Pan Am explosion over Lockerbie, Scotland happens right before Rabbit's first heart attack; and as Hurricane Hugo kicks into South Carolina, Rabbit has his second, and final, attack. When the eighties inevitably crash, Rabbit and his family tumble with them...
...millions of lives. If killing Hitler would have been morally justified, how about Idi Amin Dada, under whose regime 300,000 Ugandans died? Or Syrian President Hafez Assad, who has given protection to the Palestinian group considered responsible for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland? What level of evil deeds or threat to world peace justifies as asassination, and who is qualified to make such a judgment? Those questions are impossible to answer to universal satisfaction -- but a moral nation must keep on asking...