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...Brack, who is based in Washington and has shot for TIME for 25 years, is remaining in Saudi Arabia to work exclusively for us. That's good news for you and me, but as for Brack . . . he smiles every time he thinks about the vacant house on the Delaware shore where he was planning to spend his summer vacation. "I wanted sun and sand," he says, shrugging. Surveying the endless Saudi desert, he adds, "I'll pretend it's a very wide beach...
These appearances prove that the clever dictator is working all the angles to shore up his position. Baghdad has yet to gain a major ally, and few cracks have fractured the international consortium ranged against it. Iraq's economy and morale are under siege, its pipelines closed, supply routes in doubt and food supplies dwindling. The unattractive nature of his options must be coming clear to Saddam...
Despite its resemblance to a superstar tour, Mandela's visit to the U.S. has a deeply serious purpose. His objective is to shore up the A.N.C.'s negotiating position as it enters into talks with South African President F.W. de Klerk about the shape of a new constitution that would for the first time enfranchise the 26 million blacks who represent 68% of South Africa's population. Mandela is seeking assurances that the U.S. will not prematurely loosen the economic sanctions it imposed on Pretoria in 1986. He is also looking for "money in buckets" to help the A.N.C., unbanned...
...shore of Chesapeake Bay, watermen surreptitiously plan to get rid of a corpse before anyone can discover it. But a small boy has witnessed the killing, and he knows who pulled the trigger: his father. On the Western plains, a frightened woman leaves her husband and four young children. He tracks her down, and she relents as "her body starts flowing toward the baby." A man returns to the ranch where his mother has married a drunken old farmhand and finds she has done the right thing. In a Father's Place (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 214 pages; $18.95) is filled...
...waning options, Feinstein met privately with the president of the Fund for the Feminist Majority, Eleanor Smeal, and three prominent members of the organization's Los Angeles leadership. The four took Feinstein to dinner in West Hollywood, and through an evening of intense, plainspoken woman talk, they strove to shore up her resolve...