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...some fairly horrifying implications?till death do us part, for one?but it is so close to character that it is too bad that Whitaker, at 42 an acknowledged star among royal-watchers, did not really say it. The dapper Whitaker has concentrated on the royal family for 14 years???in the process, he says contentedly, traveling around the world several times and moving at increasingly fatter salaries from the Daily Mail to the Express to the Sun to the Star, and finally to the Mirror. He likes the royals. "They all mean a great deal to me," he says...
These things are not measurable by surveys or shows of hands or random samplings. If they are knowable at all, it is through some almost incidental combination of art and intuition, force of feeling and shock of knowledge. Finally it all comes to this: that women, after years???after centuries?are stepping through Virginia Woolf's looking glass. The measure of all the change and growth of the past decade is that women, finally, are coming out the other side of the mirror. The limit is that they have not shattered the glass...
...Arab terrorists attacked a school and held 88 children hostage, 23 of whom were killed when the building was stormed. In Qiryat Shemona that same year, terrorists made an assault on an apartment house; eight children died in the fighting. There have been dozens of such incidents in recent years???sudden death visited upon an otherwise tranquil area. Black goats feed on scrub. Trees crop up in spurts. Cows graze in fields stained brown where the rockets have seared them...
...kind of war that could drag on for months and perhaps years???or could just as easily end overnight. The conflict between Iraq and Iran might remain in quarantine, limited to battles between two angry neighbors who have a long history of ethnic and sectarian enmity. Or it could suddenly expand, touching off a full-scale confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union...
...George Bush, the vice presidential nomination is not just a consolation prize but a goal that he has pursued for two years???or so his aides are now saying. At their first strategy meetings in 1978, one adviser told TIME last week, Bush and his campaign planners recognized that Ronald Reagan might well be unbeatable in 1980. So, says this aide, Bush decided at the outset to campaign for the Oval Office and simultaneously to position himself for the vice presidency...