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Tough questions about his civil rights views. Allegations that he tried to prevent minorities from being allowed to vote. Obscure yet embarrassing revelations about the deeds to his homes. A showdown with the White House about memos he wrote on the eve of Watergate...
Laymen tend to envision a future world war as instant Armageddon. Clancy knows better. Instead of staging yet another atomic holocaust, he imagines a scenario that accounts for much U.S. defense spending: a protracted showdown arising from a conventional Soviet attack on NATO. Although each side briefly contemplates "going nuclear," neither is willing to reach for the button; instead, the fighting involves a land war on the plains of Germany and games of hide-and-seek on the high seas...
...showdown that ended weeks of tense maneuvering and blatant logrolling by pro-Manion forces, Senators divided mainly along party lines, with only two Democrats for Manion and five Republicans against. The deans of some 40 law schools protested the appointment on the ground that Manion was short on experience and competence. A South Bend, Ind., lawyer who is a former state legislator and son of a leader of the ultraconservative John Birch Society, Manion, 44, has never argued a case before a federal appeals court. The American Bar Association had found Manion "qualified," but that is its lowest passing grade...
...same day, Indonesia summarily expelled a New York Times correspondent, Bangkok-based Barbara Crossette. The reasons in both cases apparently stemmed from the government's sensitivity over foreign-press accounts of Indonesian corruption and human rights violations (see box). Deciding that it was best not to provoke a public showdown, the White House said it would pursue the matter...
...activism. Born to Indian peasant parents in the south-central department of Chontales, he joined the Salesian order and became known as a priest to the poor, riding through rough country on horseback to visit impoverished backwoods villages. Though he has unquestionably gained stature in the course of his showdown with the Sandinistas, Obando remains a humble man, reluctant to venture far into the power game. "We, the bishops and the priests, shouldn't mix the church with party positions," he said last week in an interview with TIME. "It will divide the church. It is not our role...