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...Arlen Specter, having recently returned from his native Pennsylvania after surgery to remove a benign brain tumor, has, one hopes, had the fear of God struck into...
...much more interesting aspect of the film relates to Horrigan's connection with the assassin played by John Malkovich. Malkovich's character is friendly to Eastwood's and becomes a haunting specter as he digs under Frank's skin, reminding Horrigan of his past "failure" to save Kennedy...
...specter of a Greater Serbia emanating from Belgrade now seems challenged by Croatian designs on Herzegovina. And as these shadows benight Bosnia, the threat of wider conflict looms. Last week one Belgrade official blustered, "The Croats will move against the ((Bosnian)) Serbs, Serbia will have to protect them, and we'll have global war in the Balkans again...
...more officials and the media continue to make this analogy, the specter of Vietnam is beginning to loom larger in the minds of the American public...
Israel today lives with the specter of annihilation. Saddam threatened to "burn up half of Israel." The Islamic fundamentalist group Hamas, some of whose leaders Israel famously deported to Lebanon, declares that "every Jew and settler will be a target for murder; his blood and possessions are expendable." Meanwhile, Hamas' patron, Iran, is urgently acquiring ballistic missiles and nuclear materials. The destination of these instruments of mass murder is no mystery...