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...knowledge of the world and himself. Now he has essayed what his book's subtitle calls "a history of heroes of the imagination." The Creators' range is impressive, from the Vedic hymns of ancient India to the modern cinema. The end result, alas, is considerably less exciting than its predecessor...
British Prime Minister John Major is not as skeptical about European unity as his predecessor Margaret Thatcher was, but he captured the new Continental mood in his speech to a special session of Parliament. "There are fears throughout Europe," he said, "that the Community is too centralized, that it is too undemocratic, that the leaders of the Community are trying to develop it too fast." He said he would not present the Maastricht treaty to Parliament until after Denmark, which rejected it last June, has another try at approving...
...center led an international group that monitored a successful multiparty election in Zambia. The new government is typical of a rapidly growing number of democracies in Africa that are struggling to establish free markets and new opportunities for the people despite natural disasters and treasuries robbed or wasted by predecessor regimes...
...Eastern Europe is openly advocating a return to communism -- by that name. But in some countries, the communists who now call themselves socialists have given up hardly any of their control of economic, political and social life. President Ion Iliescu rules Romania less brutally than did his executed predecessor, Nicolae Ceausescu, but with as keen a will to block all reform...
...agency's clandestine service, he was imbued with the shadow-world ethos of the cold war. His generation of CIA officers perceived themselves in an intensely personal crusade against the Evil Empire. George valiantly fought these looking-glass battles in extraordinarily dangerous assignments in Beirut and Athens, where his predecessor had been assassinated. It was a covert existence in which professional spies like George routinely broke other nations' laws. It was part of their job to lie about their identities, their missions, their actions -- but not to their own superiors. And especially not to Congress. "That," says former CIA staffer...