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...longtime and unquestionably loyal associate. When asked in Geneva whether he had any plans to fire Weinberger, the President responded with a blunt "Hell, no!" That is the only correspondence Weinberger needs to remain a member of the Reagan team. --By William R. Doerner. Reported by Bruce van Voorst/Washington
...years experts have known that many of the works attributed to Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-69) were actually by his students or other admirers. One critic suspects that as many as 300 of the great Dutch artist's supposed 720 paintings are not actually Rembrandts. So far 170 have been reclassified, and last week came word that experts have determined that two more works were painted by someone else. Special neutron photography confirmed that The Man with the Golden Helmet, a beloved masterpiece housed at West Berlin's Staatliche museum, does not match known examples of Rembrandt's work. After...
With good reason. It was the third time in eight days that whites had been victims of racially motivated violence. Two days before, an unidentified non-white youth threw a hand grenade under a van parked on a crowded Durban street, injuring eight whites. On Dec. 15, six whites were killed when their truck hit a land mine as they drove along a road near the Zimbabwe border. The A.N.C. admitted that it had planted the device, as well as six others that have killed seven and injured eleven since November. Predictably, the government of State President P.W. Botha promptly...
...focusing on the more extreme views of a few participants, you missed the workshops and working sessions, which offered valuable wisdom, training and hope. Your focus on the controversies gives a totally different impression than we had after a more balanced participation in the conference. Craig Van Tuinen, M.D. Carol Rooke Van Tuinen, R.N. Newton Corner, Mass...
...does the difficult task of defending U.S. interests and countering the spread of surrogate Soviet regimes. Until the Pentagon faces up to the realities of low-intensity conflict, the U.S. will remain a highly visible and too often helpless target. --By Evan Thomas. Reported by Michael Duffy and Bruce van Voorst/Washington