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...Chris tian Phalangist massacre of some 700 to 800 Palestinians and other Arabs in refugee camps outside the city. The new minister moved quickly to establish a new atmo sphere in the defense Establishment, and his quiet approach contrasted sharply with the shrill, impulsive outbursts of his predecessor. Still, Arens is as fully committed as Sharon and Begin to Israel's role in Lebanon and to retaining control over the West Bank. The other leading candidates for the top job are David Levy, the Deputy Prime Minister, Yoram Aridor, the Finance Minister and, even though the chance is remote...
...also reached right into the inner circles of U.S. diplomacy. Partly because Assad refused to see him again, Washington replaced U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib with Robert McFarlane. After his first meeting with the Syrian President three weeks ago, McFarlane left Damascus as frustrated and empty-handed as his predecessor...
...administrator, William Ruckelshaus, has ordered that waste dumps be cleaned up first and the costs assessed against polluters later, reversing his predecessor's practice of delaying cleanup until EPA could work out a deal with the offending companies. He has asked for 1,100 new employees and a budget increase of $265 million; Congress added an extra $30 million...
...have about President Reagan's record on women's issues. Women should realize that Reagan has done more for us than have so-called liberal Presidents. He put a woman on the Supreme Court, which is more concrete than giving lip service to the ERA, as his predecessor...
...will put an end to the upswing after only a further modest drop in unemployment. Says Mondale: "I am deeply worried that the current economic recovery cannot be sustained" in an era of "outsized deficits." Such misgivings are by no means confined to Democrats. Murray Weidenbaum, Feldstein's predecessor as Reagan's chief economic adviser, voices "latent concern" that because of deficits "inflation will hover in the background and future increases in employment will not be significant...