The Week

■ The Soviet coup, as someone has put it, isasifa crew of pirates had taken over the Titanic. And with the popular captain now in irons, the West can root unashamedly for the iceberg.

■ In a town where pots routinely call kettles black, it is hard not to smile at screaming newspaper headlines linking prominent Democrats, from Clark Clifford to Jimmy Carter, to the BCCI banking scandal. Of course, none of these men has been indicted yet, much less convicted—and we shouldn’t forget that. But how come it’s “sleaze” when Ed Meese gets a pair of cufflinks but not when Jimmy Carter gets $8 million?

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■ The Soviet coup, as someone has put it, isasifa crew of pirates had taken over the Titanic. And with the popular captain now in irons, the West can root unashamedly for the iceberg.

■ In a town where pots routinely call kettles black, it is hard not to smile at screaming newspaper headlines linking prominent Democrats, from Clark Clifford to Jimmy Carter, to the BCCI banking scandal. Of course, none of these men has been indicted yet, much less convicted—and we shouldn’t forget that. But how come it’s “sleaze” when Ed Meese gets a pair of cufflinks but not when Jimmy Carter gets $8 million?