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...than running for President," replied the man who passed up one more try at the top job to settle for what many consider the second most powerful post in Washington. The former Senate majority leader's calm, quip-filled manner contrasted sharply with that of Don Regan, his tightly wound, autocratic predecessor. Said Senior White House Aide Mitch Daniels: "Spring came early this year...
...Israel was mincing words. Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin called it a "real disaster, a real wound in Israeli-U.S. relations." Foreign Minister Shimon Peres admitted that Israel had made a "regretful mistake." Declared former Foreign Minister Abba Eban: "This is the most difficult moment in the history of Israel's international relations, especially because the wrongdoing was done here...
...disaster, the wound, the mistake, the wrongdoing turned on the case of Jonathan Jay Pollard, 32, an American naval intelligence analyst, who was given a sentence of life imprisonment last week for spying in Israel's behalf against the U.S. Pollard's wife Anne, 26, was condemned to prison for five years. In Israel this final denouement of the Pollard affair precipitated a painful self-examination of intelligence operations as well as worries about the future of the special relationship between Israel...
Ostensibly, Angel Heart deals with hard-boiled detective Harry Angel's (Mickey Rourke) quest for a long missing crooner Johnny Favorite. Favorite has been absent since his return from World War II, where a head wound left his a vegetable and permanently disfigured. Angel is commissioned in this fruitless search by the mysterious Louis Cyphre (Robert DeNiro) who needs proof of Favorite's death in order to collect collateral from a contract he had with the singer...
Some say it is a mistake to reopen old wounds. But you can't open wounds that have never--and will never--heal. The Demjanjuk trial rips off the 40-year-old bandages that have allowed some to shield their eyes to their own scars. And it exposes the youngest generation to the gory wound for the first time...