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The deal was almost derailed at sunrise yesterday, when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened not to sign the accord unless the U.S. released Jonathon Pollard, a well-known spy for Israel.
Bradley's game plan, however, has been highly effective, and he has much to lose by being derailed from it.
I don't want to psychologize, but clearly he simply found himself unable to manage this large and difficult subject, floundered, and grasped onto a series of unwise devices that derailed the project--of which the fictional narrators are only one, and not the most disastrous.
Tobacco CEOs can't even buy congressional friends--an unprecedented spectacle that astounds Cokie Roberts (ABC's This Week ). Perhaps Congress can unilaterally implement the derailed provisions, hope a few (Nina Totenberg and Jack Germond, Inside Washington ; Al Hunt, CNN's Capital Gang ). Thomas disagrees, arguing that the Supreme Court will ixnay cigarette advertising restrictions on First Amendment grounds.
Who derailed the tobacco deal?