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...sitting around a table, talking. The speechmaking in the tapestry-hung Hall of Columns of the Royal Palace in Madrid that opened the Middle East peace conference was, like a wedding or a baptism, a solemn rite symbolizing a new beginning. Come what may, the Mideast crisis, perhaps the longest-running and most envenomed in the world, had passed the point where the antagonists would not even talk...
...North Atlantic Treaty Organization, its members boast, is the most successful alliance ever. It deterred the predatory Soviet Union, won the cold war without firing a shot, and gave Europe its longest peace in this century. On the principle of not fixing things that are not broken, the Western allies could be expected to leave well enough alone now that the Soviet threat has ebbed. They are cutting back their armed forces and military spending, of course, but they might be wise to maintain the structures that served them so well...
...trial lasted 11 weeks. The jury worked on the case for nine days, the longest deliberation of a single-defendant case in New York County history. We took the plea realizing there was not going to be a verdict. Of course I was disappointed...
Look back on the field, and his teammates were helping Holy Cross extend the nation's longest Division I and IAA winning streak to 13 games, bowing to the Crusaders, 28-13, before...
...statistics were kept for such things, Markus Wolf might be said to have had the longest winning streak in the annals of espionage. For more than three decades before his retirement in 1987, he ran a succession of agents in the nerve centers of the West, and nowhere more effectively than in West Germany. Yet last week, that rampage through the history of spycraft appeared to have ended in bright morning sunshine at the village of Bayerisch Gmain on the Austrian border. There, nearly a year after German unification, Markus Wolf, now 68, surrendered...