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...this week as a follow-up to The Day After, the ABC film on the consequences of a nuclear exchange. Two weeks ago the network taped a strategic war game in which onetime officials and politicians role-play an unrehearsed version of how both sides might handle a superpower showdown. Former Secretary of State Edmund Muskie, 69, is cast as the U.S. President. (Muskie will have to watch the program from a hospital bed; he suffered a heart attack at his home in Maine last week.) Former Defense Secretaries James Schlesinger, 54, and Clark Clifford, 76, portray the Secretaries...
...showdown in Tripoli was played out against a backdrop of rising tensions. Two U.S. aircraft carriers, the Independence and the Kennedy, joined the Eisenhower off the coast of Lebanon last week. Israel, meanwhile, announced a mobilization drill of its reservists; the last time a public call to duty occurred was in 1978. Both countries described their actions as routine, but the activity fed speculation about possible retaliation for the suicidal attacks against the U.S. Marine compound in Beirut* and an Israeli military base in Tyre. In response, Syrian President Hafez Assad placed his country's armed forces on alert...
Even in the best of times, P.L.O. unity was something of a mirage. Arafat's achievement was to weld disparate and frequently feuding factions running the gamut from right to left, Islamic to Marxist, into a cohesive force. But a showdown became inevitable after the Israeli invasion of Lebanon last year...
Harvard ends its fall season with an 8-2 record. The two losses were to Boston University in a showdown for the New England title, and to McGill in the snow in Montreal...
...times they played on opposite sides of the field was in last year's showdown on The Cross's home field. When it comes to playing his brother, Kevin Garvin says, "I guess there's a common rivalry between us. We work out during the summer together. We see who lifts more weights and who runs the fastest." Kevin describes his brother Michael, younger by 11 months, as the "bigger star...