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Finally realizing her indiscretion, she clammed up like Clarence Thomas faced with a question about Roe. Can't tell you that, sir; can't even estimate. Further queries got the same kind of neither-confirm-nor-deny blather one usually associates with Kremlin cronies asked questions about Finland...
...weeks ago with the collapse of the coup in Moscow and the subsequent rout of the Communist Party by reformers bearing the twin banners of democracy and Mother Russia. If it had been a hot war, some soldier might have rushed into an American general's tent, crying, "Sir, Moscow has fallen!" As it was, there was just the quiet realization that the world had changed utterly and that where East-West relations are concerned, the past was no longer prologue...
...perfect. Harry, Martin writes, had extended relationships with Jean Dalrymple, a Broadway producer and theatrical agent and (platonically, it seems) with Mary Bancroft, who, among other accomplishments, had been a wartime spy master for the OSS. Clare's lovers, according to the author, included financier Bernard Baruch, Sir Winston Churchill's son Randolph and others (as the saying goes) too numerous to mention. Martin portrays Harry as a reluctant adulterer, consumed with Presbyterian guilt, who sought from other women the kind of feminine solace Clare could not or would not give. Clare, by contrast, is limned as a dazzling...
...Baker's peace proposals. But that displeasure did not prevent a visit last week to Damascus by Iranian Interior Minister Abdollah Nouri, who almost certainly had a hand in McCarthy's release. How, then, to explain Leyraud's subsequent abduction? "Rafsanjani may be in the driver's seat," says Sir John Moberly, a former British ambassador to both Iraq and Jordan, "but there are quite a few backseat drivers...
...kidnapping clans inside Lebanon, fearful of Syria's strengthened presence, may react with greater intransigence, wielding the hostages as protection against Syrian reprisals. Because of their high profile, Terry Waite and Terry Anderson, the best-known hostages, may be the last to walk free. But at least, notes Sir Anthony Parsons, a British Arabist and a former ambassador to Iran, "everybody is facing in the same direction." And that is surely the most promising sign to emerge from the hostage madness in a long time...