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...using the word America, in some form, 14 times on twelve covers in 1983. Broyles, says a Washington correspondent, "won support for his idea that the news grew out of long-term trends, and that Newsweek should spot and report those trends before anybody else." Smith credits Broyles with shrewd hiring, including 25% of the magazine's correspondents. He also supervised a long-heralded redesign of the magazine, which has received Graham's approval but has not yet been put into use. Because of Broyles, says Smith, "we are not in a period where Newsweek...
These designs were all paraded in early July, and the authorities promised a prompt decision. The policewomen filled out questionnaires and nominated favorite garments. But what began as an exercise in design and shrewd public relations became a political matter. The Fendis and Guccis, being prominent in the field of fashion and society, have powerful friends at court. Mayor Ugo Vetere, stoutly vowing that no pressuring would be permitted, probably felt several g-forces' worth. Officials took almost half a year maneuvering toward a decision, then announced the results just at the onset of the holidays, hoping that Yuletide...
...shrewd Syrians, who invited Jackson after the candidate had asked for Goodman's release, it was a no-lose situation. If they decided to hold on to Goodman, the publicity generated by Jackson's trip would enhance Goodman's value as a Syrian bargaining chip with Washington. If they released him to the populist, relatively pro-Arab Jackson, they could show magnanimity and embarrass the Reagan Administration...
Though aspirations and methods have been adjusted to the realities of the 1980s, the passion for hegemony lives on in Damascus. Under the shrewd, ruthless, brutally dictatorial guidance of President Hafez Assad, 53, Syria has been making a bid for the past decade to grasp the torch of Arab unity and emerge as the pre-eminent power in the Middle East. By keeping its 62,000 troops in Lebanon and by supporting factions opposed to the government of Lebanese President Amin Gemayel, Syria has become the key player in that fractured country's future. By fueling the raging rebellion within...
...Shrewd and dangerous as a snake," as a general in Israeli intelligence describes him, Rifaat flexes his muscles through the 280 tanks and 15,000 troops of the Defense Companies. Charged with the defense of metropolitan Damascus, Rifaat's men have sometimes been called on to defend the government from internal enemies. Last year, for example, they reportedly executed around 100 air force officers who had tried to stage a coup. In February 1982, some 8,000 of Rifaat's troops exacted a bloody revenge against the rebellious Muslim Brotherhood in the historic city of Kama, leaving most...