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Helms never returns home before 8 p.m. After dinner with his wife, he goes back to his reading or telephone calls until midnight. Helms seldom watches television, and he has been to only a couple of movies in the last 20 years; he gets impatient over the lost time. His only relaxation, he says, is to run a mile a day, walk his beagle Patches and spend time with his grandchildren. Helms does not drink but smokes a pack of cigarettes over a couple of days. He carries Lucky Strikes in his shirt pocket and always offers one to visitors...
Weinberger, 63, has an unpretentious old-shoe style that makes him seem comfortably self-effacing-a description seldom applied to the high-strung Haig. Cap enjoys the exercise of power but seems bemused by its trappings. When security-conscious West German officials sent a limousine to take him to a secluded wood for his daily three-mile run one morning, he gently protested, to no avail, that he preferred jogging the streets near his hotel in Bonn. Later, he joked that the Germans had probably insisted he get out of town because his tattered jogging outfit was so indecorous. Unlike...
...scene seldom varies wherever the campaigning candidate appears. The lights dim in the hall. Thunder rolls from stereophonic speakers. Jagged streaks of lightning flash on movie screens. Then comes an apocalyptic parade of images depicting a world in crisis. Ayatullah Khomeini, mobs and mullahs. Soviet troops in Afghanistan. Pillars of black smoke from the Iran-Iraq war. Scenes of terrorist violence in Italy and Spain. "There are wars you can see," a narrator intones. "And others that are devious." Japanese-built motorbikes in front of a Paris dealership make a point about trade war. A shot of Middle East...
...revolutionist, but like too many of the current crop not quite certain what he wants to destroy and completely at a loss as to what he wants to build . . . Indefatigable in attack, he nevertheless flits from project to project, never completing any particular job and seldom going beyond the flash of publicity which keeps his name current on page one or the TV news...
...substitutes the Cause for God: "In that way I could accept everything without reservation or hesitation. . . the Party held the truth and the keys to the future." When he marches with militant workers, he suddenly feels the weight of phylacteries in his knapsack, but his revolutionary fervor is seldom leavened by thought. It takes a phosphorescent, spectral figure to rekindle any moral sense. David Aboulesia, who mysteriously appears whenever pain grows too intense to bear, warns him, "If you believe you must forsake your brothers in order to save mankind, you will save nobody, you will not even save yourself...