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Again, readers need to decide for themselves how likely it is that a Cabinet officer would bring a Washington dinner party to a mortified standstill by mistaking jelly for sauce.
So the National Rifle Association, which elected Heston president this week, can be forgiven for mistaking the actor for a real commander.
A Mr. Donald N. S. Unger, in criticizing a recent William Safire pitch for anti-missile missiles, refers to how the Aegis missile system shot down an Iranian Airbus during the Gulf war, mistaking it for a Mig fighter plane.
He especially objected to an account of a dinner party at his house, at which his wife Ilena (according to Reich) exclaims in horror, and the whole table falls silent, when Reich "puncture[s] the evening's high-society ambiance" by mistaking mint jelly for sauce.
Another liberal British paper, the Guardian , led its front page with a story beginning: "The Serbs did not want us to see it, but there was no mistaking the hellish fires raging in Kosovo yesterday as ethnic Albanian villages were torched by Serbian security forces."