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So where are the Israeli soldiers? How many of them are still alive? And whose answers to those questions can be trusted? Hizballah asserted last week that three of the servicemen are still alive. A Westerner who has served as an intermediary in hostage negotiations said he believed that only...
A vividly hued sign on the meter offers a sense of the impact of the coins, which go to La Amistad National Park in Costa Rica. Each hectare (2.5 acres) preserved, reads the sign, will save 500 butterflies, 200 orchids, 10,000 mushrooms, 20 frogs, half a parrot and a...
Strict immigration policy makes it difficult to move to Britain; only 49,000 newcomers were admitted in 1989. In the past decade, the nonwhite population rose only from 1.9 million to 2.6 million out of a total of 57 million residents. But those facts seem to make no impression on...
Von Raab charged that the Bush Administration had taken a "lackadaisical" approach to prosecuting B.C.C.I. in part because the bank used Beltway insiders such as Clifford and Altman to lobby federal regulators. "If you were to look at the Rolodexes at B.C.C.I.," he said, they would show "the blue chips...
There was an important difference between Bush and Reagan in this regard. No one had ever questioned Reagan's conservative credentials, so Reagan was all but invulnerable to the vigilantes of the hard right. Also, as a virtuoso political showman in his own right, Reagan appreciated the skill with which...