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...consequences of the assassination of Anwar Sadat began to permeate Washington last week, the Reagan Administration found itself scrambling to patch together answers, however temporary, to a host of delicate questions raised by the death of the Egyptian leader. How best to beef up the regime of Hosni Mubarak, Sadat's successor? How to keep the Libyans at bay in the Sudan? Perhaps most important, how to speed up the Egyptian-Israeli talks on Palestinian autonomy? At stake is not only the influence of the United States in a crucial part of the globe, but, ultimately, issues of peace...
...millions of people around the world, he was, quite simply, the living symbol of Israel. With his distinctive black eye patch and round boyish face, he was instantly recognizable in any country, in any kind of uniform, even in disguise, which he donned from time to time in the service of his nation's diplomacy. Soldier, statesman and swashbuckling hero of Israel's wars with its Arab neighbors, Moshe Dayan occupied center stage in Israel for more than 30 years. By the time he died last week of a heart attack at 66, Dayan had largely outgrown...
Harvard's JV football team may not have standing-room only crowds for every game played on their patch of muddy, battered earth at the far edge of Soldier's Field, but they certainly deserved one yesterday afternoon as the Crimson Cruised to a 47-0 victory over a hapless University of Connecticut team...
...reporting daily weather statistics to the National Weather Service for his stretch of western Arizona desert. Last April a stickler from the Weather Service told him to move his thermometer from the firehouse's comparatively cool, sprinklered front lawn to more "natural terrain." Baudouine picked a dusty patch 100 yards away, and the high temperatures in Bullhead City were promptly four or five degrees higher. On eight days last month, in fact, television weathermen announced that the town-with temperatures as high as 115° F -was the warmest spot...
...panel's recommendation that guidelines be set for sentencing and that parole be abolished. No longer would sentences vary wildly from judge to judge for similar crimes, and criminals serving lengthy prison terms would not be set loose after just a few years. The panel would like to patch up a loophole in the 1968 Gun Control Act that allows parts for "Saturday night specials"-though not the guns themselves-to be imported; it would also require a"waiting period" for prospective gun buyers so that authorities could check for criminal records. But President Reagan remains opposed...