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...gross miscalculation--a threat to the Kennedy legacy. "They began to change what they were saying about Kennedy and Vietnam," Gelb recalls. A 1970 article in LIFE magazine, by Jack's assistant Kenneth O'Donnell, recounted a previously unknown story in which Jack privately told advisers that he would withdraw U.S. troops from Vietnam after the 1964 election. "I was struck by it because this was so at odds with what we had been hearing from Kennedy people before," Gelb says. "They were changing their mind and trying to bring President Kennedy with them...
...Back from the Brink Dangerously close to all-out war, the two sides in the Macedonian conflict gave way to persuasion and declared another cease-fire. Under pressure from international mediators, rebel ethnic Albanian fighters, who had occupied the area around Tetovo, north of the capital Skopje, began to withdraw as Albanian politicians agreed to meet government representatives. Thousands of civilians had quit the town earlier in the week as rebel and government forces clashed. ALGERIA Blood in the Sand In one of the bloodiest periods in a long-running insurgency by Islamic extremists, 90 people have been killed...
...killed every week in the West Bank or Gaza may be politically unsustainable in the long run for the Israeli government. After all, it was the deaths of almost 1,000 Israeli soldiers over an 18-year period, rather than any single dramatic defeat, that forced Israel to withdraw from Lebanon last year. And that's precisely the effect Palestinian militants want to mimic through a protracted low-intensity war in the West Bank and Gaza. There may be umpteen reasons why Lebanon is quantitatively different from the West Bank, but a steady toll of Israeli lives is unacceptable...
...that under his leadership, the Shin Bet had used "moderate physical pressure" against Palestinian detainees. Although Denmark subsequently indicated that Gillon would not be charged, Danish officials remain hostile to the ambassador-designate. Israeli foreign ministry sources, speaking privately, have suggested it may be politic for Mr. Gillon to withdraw his nomination and end a potentially embarrassing affair, but he remains determined to go ahead and assume the post...
...battle he and his fellow soldiers would find a sheltered spot and fire from there with no thought of moving. Sometimes they would be pinned down for hours. Now they are learning how to cover each other with fire and move forward to put pressure on the enemy to withdraw. "I can see how this would work," he says...