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...beef up the Navy, the Reagan Administration has almost doubled the money spent on building new ships and warplanes hi the past three years. Yet if war broke out, the Navy would still not be able to send to sea enough carriers or air wings to fight effectively, according to a study released last week by the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress...
...terrorists who launched suicidal attacks against the American and French headquarters in Beirut and Israeli army ofr fices in Tyre two months ago. Based hi Baalbek, which is in Syrian-controlled eastern Lebanon, the Iranians acted under the auspices of Islamic Amal, a radical Shi'ite Muslim militia that broke away from the larger and more moderate Amal organization in early 1982. But they could not have undertaken the murderous task if Syria had disapproved. Says a Western diplomat: "The Syrians did not control and organize the operations, but certain elements in the Syrian regime knew what was going...
...Assad supported Beirut's right to impose rules on the P.L.O. even though the group was far stronger than the government. While Assad saw the Palestinian cause as subordinate to his wider vision of Arab unity, Arafat believed the P.L.O. must remain Independent of any Arab nation. Differences hi the personal styles of the two men also played a part in their estrangement. A lifelong military man, Assad is used to giving orders, expecting them to be obeyed and staying out of public sight, while Arafat, a thoroughly political animal, likes haggling, cutting deals and basking in the spotlight...
...surcharge is not the only rate increase in the works. Local phone companies have been madly filing for price hikes with state public service commissions. A total of $6.7 billion hi increases has been requested this year. The outlook for those applications is uncertain, and public service commissions are expected to be tough with the phone companies...
...graceful, gray-haired man with an easygoing smile, Brown is as unpretentious as a telephone repairman, perhaps because he has fixed a few phones in his time. "Hi, I'm Charlie Brown," he introduces himself. Throughout all the congressional hearings, bargaining sessions with the Government and marathon staff meetings surrounding the divestiture, he has kept a self-effacing sense of humor. On one arduous day, an employee accidentally trod on Brown's foot in an elevator at AT&T's Manhattan headquarters. "Oh, that's O.K.," Brown said. "Everybody's stepping on me nowadays...