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After Souter was contacted at his office in Concord, he made three calls in quick succession to Rudman. The first was to tell Rudman the news. Then Souter quickly phoned again, inquiring whether it was possible to fly to Washington directly from Manchester, N.H. ("This is not a guy who...
As the public face of U.S. diplomacy in the Vietnam era, dour, obdurate Dean Rusk never apologized, rarely explained and, after leaving office in 1969, even declined to write his memoirs. Alienated by that flintiness -- and by the war -- Rusk's son Richard fled home in 1970 for a succession...
His activities then began his transition to the more fervid activism he document in the latter half of Memoirs. His tales of his evolution to widely-acclaimed human rights champion and critic of the Soviet regime are fascinating--never does Sakharov consciously break ties with the past. Sakharov humbly relates...
Peregrinations such as these have made O'Connor a moving target for antiabortion forces, who are determined to see her provide the decisive fifth vote to overturn or at least neutralize Roe v. Wade. Their goal is to send before the court a succession of laws that will chip away...
The key to the future is the Kims. While Kim Il Sung may be above criticism, his son and intended successor, "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il, 48, is not. The younger Kim, who is in charge of the nation's day-to-day affairs, is being groomed for the communist...