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While the West had good reasons to be considerate toward Russia (by delaying preparations for a land invasion and seeking a solution to the crisis within the unusual context of the G-8, only because Russia was a part of it), it also has the right to expect Russia "to play the game," Le Monde said.
I never quite figured out, for example, what the particular crisis was that left Hick worried that Eleanor would ditch FDR on the eve of re-election--although it's another tidbit to add to our Clinton-Roosevelt Parallels file.
The New York Times front page ventures the comparison between Clinton's restraint in the Iraqi crisis and John F. Kennedy's performance during the Cuban missile crisis.
The British papers noted that Tony Blair backed Clinton to the hilt in the Iraqi crisis and said that "absolute and unconditional compliance" was necessary for Iraq.
Typically, he conjures a Lutheran or Presbyterian setting for his novels, and his enthusiasm for those particular creeds induces him, at moments of crisis in one plot after another, to plunk his guilty male culprit of a hero (Updike's heroes are almost always guilty males) down on a hardwood pew and to subject him to a vigorous Sunday sermon on biblical themes.