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...changes had been rumored for months, but the timing came as a surprise. In a high-level shakeup, the Chinese government announced last week that Foreign Minister Huang Hua and Defense Minister Geng Biao had been replaced. Huang's fall seemed especially abrupt. He had just returned from the Soviet Union, where he had headed the Chinese delegation to Leonid Brezhnev's funeral. He had also held talks in Moscow with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, and delivered a warm expression of support for an improvement in relations between Peking and Moscow...
SUCH OBVIOUS PARANOIA can't help but recall the embarrassing leak last May, when a transcript of a high-level discussion on enforcement became public. In the course of the meeting, which both Meese and Turnage attended, officials discussed possible political backlash from enforcement, and one suggested targeting politically conservative and quiet regions of the country for the first few indictments. The consideration of such underhand tactics, together with the current fumbling, indicate that a lot more unsavory action may yet be revealed...
...greatest irony, of course, is that ferreting out non-registrants should so preoccupy high-level officials at all. Opinion and calculations over the benefit of registration in wartime have variously put the mobilization time saved at up to two weeks, or no time whatsoever. Last week, the release of yet another study--this one conducted by the President's own commission--indicated the latter...
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While Lebanese authorities have been slow to investigate the incident, the Israeli Cabinet last week voted to launch a high-level judicial inquiry into Israel's role in the massacre. The move was an about-face by Begin, who had initially refused to consider such a probe. Instead, he had sought to limit the political damage by appointing Supreme Court Chief Justice Yitzhak Kahan, 69, as a special investigator but one without explicit authority to compel witnesses to testify or to demand documents. Begin's chosen investigator did not go along with the plan. Since two petitions demanding...