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Roger Ailes, the impresario of George Bush's triumphant run for the presidency, appeared on television the other day. There arrived shortly a note from the White House: "You were not bad, but your eye contact wasn't great. George...
From his weekend home in Kennebunkport, Me., where he had arrived only a day earlier after his triumphant NATO meeting, a sorrowful President Bush said, "I deeply deplore the decision to use force against peaceful demonstrators and the subsequent loss of life." A White House official told TIME that Bush, a former Ambassador to China, felt "personal anguish and even anger." Secretary of State James Baker called the affair "ugly and chaotic," and his department sent a message to China's leaders urging them to "return to restraint...
...time he enjoyed the full glare of Western press attention. Shortly after his arrival, the continuing massive street demonstrations and battles between the Iranian soldiers and protesters turned the tide against the regime and led, within three months, to the Shah's exile. In February 1979 Khomeini made his triumphant return to Iran, where ecstatic million-strong crowds greeted...
...Gorbachev, who came to Beijing in his guise of Triumphant Conciliator, the demonstrations, which hailed his other persona of Democratic Liberator, were something of an embarrassment. The contrast with the treatment accorded Deng, once recognized as a great economic reformer and the author of China's recent prosperity, could not have been starker: huge effigies were paraded around with placards saying DOWN WITH DENG XIAOPING...
...twinkle. California reminds him "of the popular American Protestant concept of heaven: there is always a reasonable flow of new arrivals; one meets many -- not all -- of one's friends . . . and the newcomer is slightly disconcerted to realize that now -- the devil having been banished and virtue being triumphant -- nothing terribly interesting can ever happen again...