Tom Weisskopf, a fiery anti-war activist, didn't celebrate the Vietnam War's end. President George Bush exulted after the United States and its allies smashed to victory in the 1991 Persian Gulf War. At Pleasant Grove Baptist Church on Detroit's east side, Rev. Odell Jones still remembers a Sunday morning when Bill Clinton gave a rousing sermon as a presidential candidate eight years ago that used the city to symbolize the need for racial harmony. Three nights after a federal agent found him trying to hide in a cramped closet with Elian Gonzalez in his arms, Donato Dalrymple sits in his Georgetown hotel room at midnight, ready to talk for hours, his body clock by now like a Vegas lounge singer's. The CIA knew the Soviet Union had learned the date of the failed U.S.-backed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba more than a week before it took place, but went ahead with the operation anyway, newly declassified intelligence documents show.
History is written by the victors.
Convinced that the global spread of AIDS is reaching catastrophic dimensions, the Clinton administration has designated the disease for the first time as a threat to U.S. national security that could topple foreign governments, touch off ethnic wars and undo decades of work in building free-market democracies abroad. The placid face of a towering Buddha and the sonorous sound of chants lend this mountainside monastery an air of tranquility. But lately the Buddhists here are abuzz. They are convinced His Holiness will come. The Detroit News.