Word: strikingly
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Fact: The Teamsters chose to strike; they were not forced out of their jobs...
...describing the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961, Hersh attempts to explain Kennedy's cancellation of a planned air strike in support of the landing by claiming the President expected Mafia figures recruited by the CIA to have assassinated Castro before the invasion began, and pulled back when he discovered they had not done so. But he has no direct evidence that Kennedy ordered, or even knew of, a plan to assassinate Castro in 1961, and even less evidence that the failure of such a plan had anything to do with the bombing decision...
...peak at the Venice Carnival (a script addition), only to disappear completely in the one explicit sex scene (definitely a script addition), which Softley deliberately deeroticizes to show the gulf that opens between Kate and Merton. Both the sexualized metaphor of the masked carnival and the loveless sex may strike one as a bit heavy-handed, but both sequences are effective thanks to the remarkable capacity of the two actors to turn the heat on and off at will...
...light of the company's use of violence as a means of breaking the strike, it becomes ironic that they have fired 36 workers in recent weeks for what they term "picket line violations." These include such offenses as "swearing." Last week, after a group of strikers went to a board meeting to ask the CEO about the strike, 15 workers were fired within the hour...
...Whether a touching display of unity or a recognition of realpolitik, Butler's action puts the crisis on a new plane. The U.N., as well as the U.S., has been snubbed. Will Clinton now launch a long-awaited air strike? Not just yet, says TIME State Department correspondent Dean Fischer. ?In the short term, the administration is going to continue going the diplomatic route. They?re not likely to mount an attack on Iraq at this stage...