On December 15, I hailed the joint declaration of British prime minister John Major and Irish prime minister Perhaps his team really hadn’t worked through the hard compromises; perhaps they wanted one session to see how much they could squeeze out of Israel before showing their hand. On Sunday afternoon, February 6, Hillary, Chelsea, Dorothy, and I drove from Chappaqua to the State Univ a note informing me that President Hafez al-Assad had just died in Damascus, only ten weeks after our last meeting in Geneva.
They were designed to bring us into small towns and rural areas never visited in modern presidential campaigns, which had become dominated by rallies in major media markets. Whitewater World didn’t stop for Oklahoma City. Netanyahu said he couldn’t release Hamas members or others “with blood on their hands,” and he thought no more than five hundred could be let go. It achieved that objective, but the base also made our forces more vulnerable to terrorists in the region.
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