The Economist (US), August 5th, 1989
America plays for time LAS VEGAS was not the best place for President Bush to be headed on the day the videotape of Colonel William Higgin's swaying corpse was release in Lebanon. The tape provoked deep revulsion in the United States, far deeper than a still photograph would have done. Its stark brutality seemed to drive home the futility of trying to deal with such inhuman people as the colonel's captors, and it gave Mr Bush little choice but to cancel the rest of his trip and return to Washington.
But in doing so he generated a feeling of crisis, which is the first mistake in dealing with...
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