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There are deeper worries by some thoughtful folks, chief among them Brent Scowcroft. He was one of the three members of the Tower board, whose report shook the White House and has set the stage for the congressional hearings. Recently he spoke publicly on this issue for the first time, to a small gathering at Georgetown University. "I found myself wondering how well any past operation would have fared if subjected to the same microscopic scrutiny which we gave to this affair," said Scowcroft. "We all make mistakes. The thing that is troublesome is whether or not the national tolerance...
...skirted figure. I frantically began adding years to my mental picture of Cappi, praying for a match. But beside me, Dave's face was lighting up. The door opened, and the two Iowan's smiled at each other. A thick wholesome glow suffused the terrace as they shook hands, sparkles flashing from their corn polished teeth, drowning out Adam's smirk and my vision of Cappi. She wasn't Cappi and she wasn't fat. I had been betrayed, Adam had lost five dollars, Dave was stuck with shaking hands, and fourth grade love was a bust...
...idea of an international peace conference to break the diplomatic logjam that has plagued the Middle East for years almost invariably arouses anger. Last week it led to an acrimonious dispute that thoroughly shook the 2 1/2- year-old coalition government in Israel, with Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir bitterly accusing Shimon Peres, his own Foreign Minister, of displaying a "peace-at-any-price" mentality for endorsing such a parley. Every U.S. Administration since the mid-1970s has opposed the idea, largely because it would mean participation by the Soviet Union. Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan were all deeply...
...still 1964. At the California Democratic Convention at the end of January, the public address system blared Happy Days Are Here Again, and many delegates sank into a liberal nostalgia, dreaming of a redistributed American pie. Clinton Reilly, a moderate Democrat and political consultant, listened to the rhetoric and shook his head. "One reason for Reagan's success," he said, "is that he appealed to the self-interest of the middle class. If Democrats don't learn to make the same appeal, if they only talk about the needs of the poor and don't include the middle class, they...
...reception Gorbachev shook hands with Yoko Ono and praised the contributions she and her late husband John Lennon had made to the peace movement. Mailer quipped that he had "cemented a peace pact" over dinner with Novelist Gore Vidal, with whom he has frequently feuded. Ustinov complained that a reporter from Radio Luxembourg woke him at 2 a.m. to ask what Gorbachev was going to say in a speech later that day. Everyone feasted on mounds of fresh strawberries -- a delicacy virtually unheard of in midwinter Moscow...