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RAFIK HALABI is caught in the middle. He is a loyal Israeli, but not a Jew; an Arab, but not a Moslem. Halabi is a Druse, a member of a small religious sect whose members live in Israel, Syria and Lebanon. And since 1974 he has been the West Bank reporter for Israel Television. Halabi's cultural and professional credentials make him uniquely suited to provide a balanced account of the conflict between Israel and the Arabs of the West Bank. His first book, The West Bank Story, does not disappoint this expectation. In it, Halabi offers a compelling...
Nora Seton captures effectively the predicament of the confused Penelope, who is caught between her roles of loyal wife and liberated woman With her ringing voice and facial expressions, she grows less awkward as the performance continues. The themes of women's rights, anti-war sentiment and the importance of the modern hero dominate the play--but no one theme is allowed to emerge...
...growing loneliness, what Nixon needed above all was a keeper of the gate, someone to buffer him from the conflict that he now had even less desire to handle directly. On the evening of May 2, I received a telephone call from Rose Mary Woods, his touchingly loyal secretary who had been banished to the periphery by Haldeman but who was now back as one of Nixon's principal props. Nixon wanted to bring in Alexander Haig as chief of staff, she told me, for a week or two. He was afraid I might resent seeing my former subordinate...
...seventh-floor conference room. It was with tight-lipped humor that Haig last week tried to deflect comment on the titillating, and unsettling, revelations. Referring to Kissinger's excessively candid 1972 interview with an Italian journalist, he said, "Well, Kissinger had Oriana Fallaci, and I have my loyal staff...
...only a matter of time for Valeria. But in Corde's reminiscences of her. She is a strikingly vital character. "Great Valeria," the psychiatrist, the epitome of Old World class in a country of New Age brutality and philistinism, the matriarch who called the shots for a circle of loyal women spread out over thousands of miles, from Chicago to Bucharest. Corde comes to understand her more, to love...