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...successor to Marx, Lenin and Mao. Under the guerrilla alias "Presidente Gonzalo," Guzman fashioned himself into the demigod of a cultlike political movement. As far as his supporters were concerned, Guzman's mythic aura of brilliance, charisma and invincibility shielded him from comparisons with other mortals. Latin Americans may regard Che Guevara as the model guerrilla, but Guzman dismissed him as an exhibitionist; besides, Che lacked Guzman's tolerance for slaughtering innocent women and children...
...difficult as all this may be for the Vice President to handle personally, surely an adviser or two has pointed out the side benefits of being thought a perpetual lightweight--minimal press scrutiny or public awareness of what he really does. This is particularly true with regard to one of the most significant of Quayle's activities off the golf course, the President's Council on Competiveness, which he heads. Danny Boy has a record, and it's a scary...
...beliefs were as widely shared by agency types as their low regard for Capitol Hill. In the 1970s, following embarrassing revelations about failed assassinations and bungled covert operations, Congress set up an oversight system and tried to put the agency on a swidely shared by agency types as their low regard for Capitol Hill. In the 1970s, following embarrassing revelations about failed assassinations and bungled covert operations, Congress set up an oversight system and tried to put the agency on a shorter leash. Some CIA officials, including former Director William Colby, applauded the move. "I thought things had changed...
...better not to regard this crew as a team at all, but rather as an ensemble of excellent actors on a goofy, lively lark. Sure, they gain and lose their elusive electronic grail the requisite number of times, often surprisingly. Their larger obligation, however, is not to the implausible plot but to their funky characters, and to the nice, wistful mood of the film. They all share a nostalgia for '60s idealism; even their nemesis (Ben Kingsley) operates out of a dark variant on those quixotic beliefs...
Bush is beginning to fight back, painting Clinton as a dangerous taxer and spender who will raise the deficit, a problem suburbanites regard as acute. In a speech in Union City, New Jersey, five days after the Houston convention, Bush said, "The big point I want to make in this working state is high spending and higher taxes will not do any favors to the American worker." Though Bush helped to almost double the deficit in four years, his antitax , message, says g.o.p. state director Palatucci, "is one that we're going to make over and over again. The contrast...