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Habib has put his Middle Eastern background to good use at the bargaining table, impressing his Arab contacts with the few words of Arabic he learned at home and with his knowledge of Lebanese soccer scores. During one tense negotiation some years ago, an Arab leader broke into a string of expletives, which his translator diplomatically glossed over. Habib sat upright, his face split into a wide grin, and he roguishly wagged his finger at the Arab. Said he: "I don't know much Arabic, but I sure do know those words." The Arab leader laughed, warmed by Habib...
...dollar bill, the American eagle is represented clutching an olive branch in one talon, a sheaf of arrows in the other. Ronald Reagan has been trying to present a somewhat similar image of his policy toward the Soviet Union: a string of arms-control proposals coupled with unyielding resistance to Soviet expansionism. Touring Europe two weeks ago, the President waved the olive branch so heavily that he stirred talk of a "new Reagan"-flexible, centrist and eager to negotiate. But last week, almost on the eve of new U.S.-Soviet disarmament talks, he decided to highlight the other aspect...
...Still, a string of wins, good pitching, hot hitting, loads of luck and then perhaps a pennant could resuscitate a city where baseball means more than usual at this stage in the game...
...recent string of defeats--lengthened by three ruthless Red Sox drubbings this week--has, according to Detroit and Tiger observers, made the Motor City an even sadder place to be these days...
Continuing a string of local and regional electoral successes, the Greens-Alternative List picked up 7.7% of the vote. Hamburg's thus became the fifth of West Germany's ten state parliaments in which the Greens hold seats. Worse, from Schmidt's point of view, was the poor showing of the Free Democratic Party, the Social Democrats' coalition partner: with only 4.8% of the vote, the Free Democrats failed to reach the 5% needed to qualify for seats in the Hamburg legislature. While the Social Democrats have been losing followers throughout the country, especially among disenchanted...