Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thoroughly enjoyed Hunter Thompson's story about his adventures driving up the California coast [SHOW BUSINESS, Nov. 10], even though he trashed my profession of astrology. What emerges in the piece is how the tenderness and love of a woman can tame the heart of even the most vulgar, nihilistic and wounded man as he realizes he's past his prime. Perhaps a competent spiritual astrologer could have validated Thompson's complex pathology 30 years ago. ROBERT P. BLASCHKE Nehalem...
...certain truism regarding needles and haystacks. The problem for the last week or so has been that Saddam won?t allow inspectors searching for some particularly deadly needles into his palatial haystacks ? said to be the size of Washington, D.C. But so what? As TIME?s Pentagon correspondent Dick Thompson pointed out Wednesday, you can manufacture nerve gas in a 10?x10? room. How many 10?x10? rooms can there be in Iraq? That?s an awful lot of haystacks to grope around in. Perhaps those weapons inspectors ought to quit while they?re ahead, and take up more promising...
...Will this war of words wash in Washington? Not according to TIME's Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson, who describes Iraq's refusal to open up his palaces to the inspectors as "backpedaling" by Saddam. "In the wake of the Gulf War," recalls Thompson, "Iraq agreed to open up everything ? including Saddam Hussein's knickers, if that's what it takes...
...Even if the inspectors were to enter the palatial compounds, however, it wouldn't do that much good. As Thompson says, you can manufacture biological and chemical weapons such as VX in a 10'x10' room. "We're never going to find it all," he adds. The U.N.'s best hope lies in the possibility that Saddam might care more about sanctions than about the ability to wipe out the human race...
WASHINGTON: The Thompson hearings are over, the coffee tapes have been rewound, and Democrats are seeing the light at the end of the campaign fundraising scandals. Unfortunately, there's a lawyer standing in front...