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Since the invasion, 585 Israeli soldiers have been killed in Lebanon and an additional 3,049 wounded. And there has been major political damage as well. In February 1983, opponents of the Lebanon policy converged angrily outside Beghi's office. Suddenly, a hand grenade was thrown into a crowd of Peace Now demonstrators, killing one person and injuring nine others. For an Israeli citizen to be murdered in such a way and at such a time stunned the nation. Deputy Prime Minister David Levy sadly called the death "the casualty...
...fear among the police and the military. To be a professor, a student, a known reader of books, or even to be associated distantly with anyone who might be stigmatized as an intellectual, was to risk joining the "disappeared ones," which meant to be seized, bound, tortured, murdered and thrown into secret graves...
Democrats were understandably skeptical about Reagan's transformation. Said House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "Reagan has built a wall around them and thrown brickbats. Now he wants to reach through a crack in the wall and extend the hand of fellowship." Reagan's likely Democratic opponent, Walter Mondale, has long pledged to make unconditional talks with Kremlin leaders his first priority after Inauguration Day. He derided Reagan's motives: "I intend to be a President who will lead us toward a safer world from the first day I'm in office, and not from...
Smith, executive secretary of the Memphis branch of the N.A.A.C.P., said the day of the court decision was "one of the most depressing" of her life. District Fire Chief Carl Stotts, who brought the original suit, declared that "affirmative action has been thrown right out the window." He was joined in this assessment by many civil rights activists...
...Robert Williams was convicted of murdering Pamela Powers, 10, in Iowa. That conviction was appealed to the Supreme Court and was thrown out in 1977 because of a famous illegal police interrogation-the "Christian burial" ploy...