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...with one voice on foreign policy issues, an effort that has sometimes brought him into collision with Weinberger, National Security Adviser Richard Allen and occasionally people in his own department. Neumann had earlier displeased Haig by pushing for the U.S. to sell Saudi Arabia five sophisticated AWACS radar and command center planes, while Haig saw no reason to rush the deal. To make matters worse, when Israel destroyed an Iraqi nuclear power plant in June, Neumann complained that U.S. reaction had been excessively mild...
Banisadr flees his enemies and sets up a command post in Paris...
...aiming at Palestinian guerrilla offices in a crowded neighborhood, Israeli warplanes killed some 300 Lebanese and Palestinians and wounded another 800. Even many of Begin's own countrymen, especially those from the Western-oriented Ashkenazi community, were shocked. Former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin declared that the Palestinian command posts and offices had been in Beirut for years but that, because of the political price involved, previous governments had felt that Israel could derive little benefit from attempting to destroy them. Said Rabin: "Israel used to have the moral right on its side, and in the methods it used...
...British."Then they refused a British offer to "clarify" Whitehall's position on possible steps to ameliorate their treatment unless the I.R.A.'s prison representative could attend the talks. The British could not accept this condition, since it might be seen as recognition of the I.R.A. command structure...
...parties thrown by one Mid-western home entertainer, guests are invited to the media room to watch an instant videocast of the other guests out in the garden. Many parents project Atari games like Space Invaders and Missile Command for their children on a 7-ft. screen. Super Bowl games look super that way too. Says Chicago Lawyer Charles Witz, a divorcee who has three sons at home: "I encourage them to bring their friends here, where I can build some control over their environment." Boasts Witz, who has projection TV and a library of film and music: "I have...