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This introduction, brash enough to cause riots, was tempered by the smooth melodies of Elvis Costello's "Veronica," performed by Daniel Brotman and Gordon Woodward...
...hopes for anything short of intervention were not good. Susan Woodward, a fellow at Washington's Brookings Institution, criticized the E.C. for waiting too long. The storm has been gathering for months, she notes, but only when fighting broke out in June did the Community attempt to set up a peace conference. Mitterrand said in Germany last week he did "not see it as the end of human progress if we reconstitute the Europe of tribes." But would tribal Europe, starting in the Balkans, overtake and drown the tolerant Europe of ideas...
...confirmation for a second term as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is a virtual certainty, but COLIN POWELL can expect some uncomfortable moments along the way. Several members of the Armed Services Committee, led by Georgia's Sam Nunn, recognize Powell as a primary source for Bob Woodward's controversial book The Commanders. The Senators will ask the general whether he truly preferred economic sanctions to war against Iraq, as the book claims, and whether it was appropriate for him to disclose the confidential advice he gave to the President...
...keeping a close eye on DAN QUAYLE, and they aren't members of his Secret Service detail. BOB WOODWARD and DAVID BRODER of the Washington Post plan to track the Vice President for the next few months for a series of articles on his conduct in office. White House officials, worried about the inevitable rash of "Is he ready?" stories during the '92 campaign, have told Quayle's staff to avoid the Post. But Quayle decided to cooperate, figuring the two reporters would gain access to advisers anyway...
...final analysis, The Commanders, in spite of some rather shameless Page One hype last week in the Post, breaks little new ground about the war itself. Woodward devotes only his final six pages to the actual fighting, and hardly mentions such things as allied targeting procedures for the air war, the failure of Iraq's vaunted Republican Guard to mount a serious counterattack, and the Pentagon's success at using its unprecedented control over press coverage to win public acceptance of the war. Omissions of that kind seem all the more glaring in a book written by a co-star...