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Even so, the war talk went on. Secretary of State Warren Christopher, reversing his July judgment that the U.S. was doing all it could, declared flatly, "It is in our national interest to prevent the strangulation of Sarajevo." In Brussels, the NATO allies worked out a list of Serbian military targets and completed arrangements on which air units would go into action and how the chain of command would operate. The allied air forces were waiting only for the order...
...sniffly and teary, just like real people, when somebody falls in love or dies. The candy shell of their heart can melt into chocolate when a kid hugs a whale. What separates critics from you is that inside the chocolate they must nurture the hard nut of cool judgment. They must know the difference between a good cry -- emotion earned by film artistry, as in E.T. or Greta Garbo's Camille or, for that matter, The Secret Garden...
...Judgment Day is not far off--at least for U.S. colleges and universities...
...This week Israel's highest court will finally render its judgment on Demjanjuk's appeal, for which hearings were completed just over a year ago. Yoram Sheftel, Demjanjuk's lawyer, feels "fully confident" his client will go free; Israelis, in fact, are steeling themselves for the prospect that what may be the last major Nazi war trial will end in failure. New evidence supporting Demjanjuk's contention that he was the victim of mistaken identity has convinced many observers that while he may be Ivan the Not Very Nice, accountable for lesser crimes, Demjanjuk will be cleared of the atrocities...
When several of the conspirators almost finished assembling a letter bomb to send to a rabbi in Orange County, the FBI decided to make the arrests. "It was a judgment call that they might do something without telling us," said Charlie Parsons, special agent in charge of the FBI's Los Angeles field office. "These people are very unpredictable, and it's been like riding a bucking horse." Announcing the arrests, authorities displayed an array of racist paraphernalia and weaponry taken from the homes of the suspects: pipe bombs, machine guns, a Confederate flag, a Nazi flag and a framed...