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...newspaper article quoted Hussein as saying that the nuclear program was "the first Arab attempt toward nuclear arming, although the official declared purpose of construction of the reactor is not nuclear weapons." A similar statement was made in 1977 by Naim Haddad, a member of Iraq's ruling Revolutionary Command Council. Said Haddad: "The Arabs must get a bomb." In the face of such statements, the Israelis were not reassured by the fact that Iraq had signed the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, thereby vowing not to make nuclear weapons and agreeing to let experts of the International Atomic Energy Agency inspect...
...unfair. Denton does not use McCarthy's ambush tactics, and unlike McCarthy, he is plainly sincere. He spent more than four of his years as a Vietnamese prisoner in solitary, his feet manacled to the floor for months at a time. Nonetheless, he maintained a chain of command in the P.O.W. camps and endured savage beatings for it. When forced to video-tape a confession, he blinked his eyes in Morse code to send the world a message, "Torture...
...upstairs in grander style and dominated foreign policy. Allen has shrunk the adviser's job to the stature it had with McGeorge Bundy (Kennedy) and Walt Rostow (Johnson); indeed, he is back in their old basement office, in one corner of the supersecure complex. It is a modest command post for the task: giving Ronald Reagan the full facts of a dangerous world. On these gleanings hangs our future...
...wanting to keep her husband and her throne, is exiled-set adrift alone at sea. Meanwhile, Ottone, who has tried to murder Poppea in her sleep, is banished. When Poppea finally marries Nero and is crowned Empress of Rome, vice has triumphed over virtue, and all at the command of the god of love...
More than 100 likenesses-captured mostly by unheralded studio photographers-range from the mid-19th century to the present, from Sun Yat-sen to Sibelius, from Gandhi to Garbo. They command attention for their uniqueness (Matisse on a horse), their rarity (a signed James Joyce) or their campy looniness (a bare-bottomed Mata Hari). All come from the collection...