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Moshe Arens, who is slated to become Israel's new Foreign Minister, has something in common with his predecessor, Shimon Peres: he looks and acts like a gentleman diplomat. But while Peres, the head of the Labor Party, played the moderate during his two years in the post, Arens is expected to act the hard- liner. Arens, 63, was one of the few Israeli politicians who refused to support the Camp David peace accords with Egypt in 1978, and no one expects him to display any less determination in pressing his opposition to negotiating with the Palestine Liberation Organization. Warns...
Bush's Middle East policy has yet to be articulated, but officials around him say he will be more flexible than his predecessor, without diminishing U.S. support for Israel. Yet the danger in a dramatic reversal of policy is that it creates expectations that cannot be fulfilled. The gap between what the Palestinians want and what the Israelis may give is as wide as ever. Perhaps most tragically, the P.L.O. may have evolved toward negotiating a settlement at a time when Israel is moving away. Despite what the Palestinians may believe, no recent U.S. President has been willing to muscle...
...wonder Dinosaur Bob (Harper & Row; $12.89) is dedicated to King Kong. Like his predecessor, this jolly green giant is captured in Africa and packed off to the U.S. There he delights the gaping crowds by playing the trumpet and baseball. Alas, he also disrupts traffic and incurs the wrath of policemen. Here ends the similarity of ape and monster. William Joyce's plot and pictures provide laughter, thrills and, most important, a happy ending. Fair enough. Kong, after all, was a tragic figure; Bob is a comic creature. It was beauty killed the beast; it is whimsy keeps the reptile...
Mitchell, one of the Capitol's most adroit phrasemakers, may prove more than a match for Bush in articulating his party's agenda. The next President will find the new majority leader less interested than his predecessor, West Virginia's Robert Byrd, in parliamentary procedures, more skillful in forming coalitions, and equally unwilling to let Congress play a fall-guy role if the President tries to extricate himself from his "read my lips" campaign promises not to raise taxes. Says his friend and mentor Edmund Muskie: "George is a liberal but one who can win the support of many people...
...tried to distance himself from his former close friend, called for national forgiveness for Chun. Asked Roh: "When he himself apologized deeply, how can we stone the former President alone on the grounds that there were many mistakes in the past?" But Roh stopped short of granting his predecessor the official pardon Chun had hoped for. Roh's caution probably reflects his uncertainty about whether the Korean people are ready to forgive...