I was afraid they’d get away with it, given their success at blaming me for the partisan divide in the ’94 election. In December the parties had met at Bolling Air Force Base for talks that didn’t succeed because Arafat wouldn’t accept the parameters that were hard for him. Even if I had enjoyed more balanced press coverage, the voters probably would have had a hard time sorting out what I had accomplished in all the flurry of activity. Shimon Peres came to see me at the end of the month to sign an anti-terrorism cooperative agreement that included $50 million for ou
They all cautioned restraint, because Yeltsin was stretching the limits of his constitutional authority, and because he might lose. For all the sympathy Pollard generated in Israel, he was a hard case to push in America; he had sold our country’s secrets for money, not conviction, and for years had not shown any remorse. Fetal-tissue research was essential to finding better treatments for Parkinson’s disease, diabetes, and other conditions. le’s friend and one of my harshest critics, and in South Carolina, black voters propelled Senator Fritz Hollings to a come-from-behind victory.
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