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Strong personalities rarely become Cuomo insiders. He deals more comfortably with strength from a distance. Though he engages people easily, he does not easily offer his own trust. It is not by chance that Son Andrew, 28, is his closest political counselor. Preparing for his uphill 1982 race, Cuomo examined...
Americans sometimes think that it is enough to express disapproval of a regime and to withdraw economic support. Both gestures make us feel better, but they do not necessarily work. What Americans are much less inclined to do ! is provide the difficult and costly positive actions needed to promote democracy...
Joe Gores, a three-time winner of the Edgar award, is best known for his hard- boiled thrillers. His semibiographical novel Hammett became a film produced by Francis Coppola and helped shift his career toward scriptwriting, notably for such TV series as Kojak and Magnum, P.I. Gores' novel Come Morning...
The prime U.S. complaint is that Moscow has lately abandoned private diplomacy in favor of a new series of grandiose--and uncomfortably skillful --public initiatives. These began with Gorbachev's January proposals to eliminate all nuclear weapons from the earth by the end of the century. Though the proposals had...
Even within the Pentagon, some officials questioned whether the measures backed by the President amounted to anything more than rearranging squares on an organization chart. In a book published this month, America Can Win, Colorado's Democratic Senator Gary Hart, founder of the military reform movement in Congress, insists that...