Volume 37, Number 12 · July 19, 1990
The Darkening Light
By Murray Kempton
Normal duties prompt the heart to pity persons as unhappy as Shamir's staff says their prime minister is, or as embarrassed as these forty-nine distinguished Americans less disputably are. But in my own case if in no one else's the pull of sympathy does not run as it once did. It seems to me that most of these troubled spirits have gotten what they asked for and that essentially they are asking for it still.
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