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...that his group might not be able to pursue a "policy of moderation" much longer. If they cannot, the Lebanese right and the P.L.O. may become locked into such vicious fighting that Syria might feel compelled to intervene militarily on behalf of the Palestinians. This in turn could well trigger an armed response from Israel, thus threatening to ignite a new general war in the Middle East...
...drastic a revision of Resolutions 242 and 338, however, will almost certainly trigger a U.S. veto. "We would strongly oppose any attempt to change them," Secretary of State Henry Kissinger warned last week. The principal U.S. objective at the debate is to prevent the Security Council from becoming the main forum for future Middle East peace efforts. Washington is determined either to maintain the step-by-step diplomatic approach that so far has achieved two Israeli-Egyptian Sinai accords and one Israeli-Syrian agreement or to return to the Geneva Conference, jointly sponsored by the U.S. and the Soviet Union...
Tests of Devotion. Her mother's death was so shattering that it sent her, at 13, into the first of a series of mental breakdowns that were to haunt her throughout her life and trigger her suicide at 59. These episodes left blanks in her correspondence, except when she made a diffident reference ("my usual disease, in the head you know") or when, as in a letter to Vanessa, the illness itself shadowed her prose: "All the devils came out-hairy black ones. To be 29 and unmarried-to be a failure-childless-insane too, no writer...
While the U.S. and continental Europe began their economic upturns, Britain continued for months to wallow in the trough of recession. In fact, other countries feared that Britain's economic woes-notably, a galloping inflation and a weakening pound-might trigger a new international economic crisis. But as the new year began, it was evident that Britain, though still lagging behind other nations, has firmly entered the recovery stage. The three major signs...
...high-pitched voice and is the teaser and clown of the front four, letting out jungle cries in practice, needling Joe Greene about the publicity he gets, and booming to reporters, "I am the epitome of masculinity." But just beneath the engaging extravert there is a hair-trigger temper and barely repressed violence. "There are circumstances," he says, "when I can get so angry and pissed-off that I'll do damage if I don't cool down fast...