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...American Revolution of hope and opportunity." In rhetoric that was almost flamboyantly rhapsodic, the President described his vision as "a revolution carrying us to new heights of progress by pushing back frontiers of knowledge and space; a revolution of spirit that taps the soul of America, enabling us to summon greater strength than we've known...
...received permission from the Israeli government to release a letter to the court from Haim Zadok, the attorney who acted on TIME's behalf. According to Zadok, a former Israeli Minister of Justice, he was not allowed to see information gathered by the investigators, who had the power to summon witnesses and require them to testify. Zadok also said that after inspecting those documents he was permitted to see and the testimony he was allowed to review, he felt that there "is at least a suggestion that Minister Sharon knew, or at least was likely to know, in advance, that...
...stakeout is Bob and Barbara's best friends, the Krogers, a Canadian couple linked to a Russian spy Stewart offers profuse assurance that he has no evidence to link the Krogers, but one must be sure, mustn't one? Barbara, despite her deep reservations about the spy business, cannot summon the courage to oppose the self-assured Stewart. She becomes sucked into the labyrinth of espionage-age paranoia; lying to her daughter, to her best friend, and even at times to herself. Barbara's life becomes invaded by suspicion the way her house is invaded by plainesclotheswomen...
Cooke participates in a completely irrelevant scene that epitomizes the defects in the story line. Nigel, dressed in a grey leather jumpsuit, visits Selena's amusement park hideout, and asks her right-hand woman Bianca (Brenda Vaccaro) to summon Selena Selena appears, both women insult Cooke's suit, and they slam the door in his face...
...according to a subtitle in the program, "a young boy's dream of the origins of life and death." But the excitement of both works is really their open-endedness, the way in which they resolve the knottiest of paradoxes: to be universal while remaining specific, to summon shared memories from a splintered past...