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...right, that was an easy one. The year was 1996, and the adviser was Dick Morris (and no, they couldn't stop the story). The scene is from The Clinton Wars (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 822 pages), Sidney Blumenthal's long-awaited, overlong account of his years at the White House, which, in rare moments, has some of the you-are-there, walk-with-me charm and snap of the TV show...
...plans have their own detractors, including nuclear scientist and Pentagon adviser Sidney Drell, who says even a tiny 1-kiloton weapon exploding 50 ft. deep in rock would spew radioactivity across a wide swath of the planet. Arms-control advocates worry that possessing smaller and more precise nuclear weapons would scuttle efforts to stop worldwide proliferation. Said Senator Dianne Feinstein last week: "This Administration seems to be moving toward a military posture in which nuclear weapons are considered just like other weapons." --By Mark Thompson
...eminent British stage star and Oscar-winning film actress; in London. A regal woman with a rich voice, Hiller was George Bernard Shaw's leading lady, first as Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion and then, most memorably, in Major Barbara. Her aristocratic bearing served her well as a tourist in Sidney Lumet's Murder on the Orient Express and as the elegant widow in the London stage version of Driving Miss Daisy...
...bold defender of national unity just in time for next year's presidential elections. "If you listen to the talk shows on the radio (or) talk to people on buses and trains, either in Jakarta or even out in the provinces, the level of vitriol is really shocking," says Sidney Jones of the International Crisis Group in Jakarta. "People are saying that GAM shouldn't just be defeated but totally liquidated." Washington has applied heavy pressure behind the scenes to keep the two sides talking but has yet to condemn the atrocities in Aceh now that fighting has resumed, mindful...
...officials say, this arsenal is no longer an effective deterrent. Washington's enemies, they contend, calculate that the U.S. won't use its existing nuclear weapons because of the widespread carnage they would cause. But the new plans have their own detractors. They include nuclear scientist and Pentagon adviser Sidney Drell, who says that even a tiny 1-kiloton weapon exploding 15 meters deep in rock would spew radioactivity across a wide swath of the planet. Arms-control advocates worry that possessing less catastrophic nuclear weapons would scuttle efforts to stop worldwide proliferation. Said Senator Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat...