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...Have you no sense of decency, sir?" That was the question Army counsel Joseph Welch asked Joseph McCarthy 35 years ago when the Senator ruined the lives of those who did not agree with him by impugning their character and patriotism. The same question could be posed to Republican National Committee chairman Lee Atwater, his communications director Mark Goodin and Congressman Newt Gingrich...
...wanted to play Henry Jones as a kind of Sir Richard Burton," Connery says. "There was so much behind him and so many hidden elements in his life." In the beginning Henry speaks to his long-lost son slowly, with wide eyes and grand gestures, as if Indy were a child in need of gentle remedial education. "I was bound to have fun with the role of a gruff, Victorian Scottish father," Connery says of Henry (remember, the Jones family hails from Utah). "And have fun I did -- so much so that I told Harrison, 'If you give...
...mirror-image act of retaliation," Sir Rodric Q. Braithwaite, Britain's ambassador to Moscow, said during a news conference...
...London, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Britain's foreign minister, called Britain's action "a measured action in respect of established misbehavior" and termed the Soviet response unjustified. Howe said Britain has "incontrovertible evidence" of wrongdoing by the expelled Soviets...
...Afghanistan. In February he told Oliver Tambo, leader of the African National Congress, that the Soviet Union would no longer support the A.N.C.'s "war of national liberation" in southern Africa. And, when necessary, Shevardnadze will blatantly lie, as British officials believe he did when he told Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe last month that the Soviet Union possessed only a fraction of the chemical weapons that the West believes it actually...