Jeffery Deaver has written numerous novels of mystery and suspense. He has also worked as an attorney, and his first foray into book-length publication was 1984's The Complete Law School Companion, which he published under the name Jeff Deaver. This volu...

ACTUALLY, there may be three empty chairs today, each at Israel's place in the three sets of bilateral talks (with Syria, Lebanon and a Palestinian-Jordanian delegation) that the United States had sought to open in Washington. The Israeli government decided to sit out these...

When President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua spoke at the United Nations the other day, the six members of the US delegation, led by Ambassador Vernon A. Walters, walked out. When the president of Iran criticized US policy toward his country in a speech...

Communist Cuba's parliament said Friday that a 47-year-old plot to assassinate Fidel Castro still reflects U.S. policy toward the island.The National Assembly unanimously approved a resolution condemning CIA documents made public this week that described the agency's attempt in 1960 to use mobsters and poison...

There were no jolly Christmas carols at the Cannon Memorial Chapel. No brilliant poinsettias or festive branches of holly. No smiling faces or hearty wishes of happiness.Instead, melancholy piano music echoed through the hushed church. Dead branches were lain on a table covered in blue...