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...touch with reality. John Hinckley's deed was not motivated by revenge or the desire for political aggrandizement. It was a violent act by a man who didn't understand the difference between right and wrong. The American justice system worked. If it continues to function properly, then John Hinckley Jr. will be treated as the sick...
...this bunker any more, including a portion of the roof itself, heaved high in a corner by an Israeli artillery hit. Where the colonel delivered his harangue, the noon sun drills. There is nothing else but silence and loose straw. No one who did not know what function the straw originally served could possibly guess that this was once a place of importance...
...background. Not until 1978 did he learn, after demanding to see his FBI and Army counterintelligence files under the Freedom of Information Act, that Army spooks had concluded that the two of them were having a sexual affair. In 1943, moreover, an FBI agent reported hearing at "a social function" that the results of the bugging had been presented to F.D.R., who squabbled with Eleanor in the presence of an Army counterintelligence officer and then ordered "that anybody who knew anything about this case should be . .. sent to the South Pacific for action against the Japs until they were killed...
...week before election day, for instance, was apparently Reagan's own, against his aides' advice. White reports that the Republican nominee decided he had to take on Carter in mid-October, after the two standard-bearers appeared at an Alfred E. Smith dinner in New York. At that bipartisan function, Reagan, whose address was typically graceful, found himself astonished at Carter's taut, partisan remarks...
Over the long haul, however, getting Jubail to work and function as a thriving industrial metropolis could turn out to be every bit as challenging as building the city. For one thing, Jubail's planned industries will be cranking out a prodigious supply of basic industrial products that many experts argue the world has too much of already...