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...President assured his listeners that the U.S. military buildup was a sign of American determination to live up to its commitments to defend its allies. To his memorable "You are not alone" line, the President added, "Our adversaries would be foolishly mistaken should they gamble that Americans would abandon their alliance responsibilities, no matter how severe the test...
...Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim refugees of Iranian descent, and withdrawal of Iraqi forces from every square foot of Iranian territory. Iran has demanded as much as $150 billion in war reparations from Iraq, although Majlis (parliament) Speaker Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani pointedly noted that Iran would abandon its claim to reparations if Iraq were converted into an Iranian-style Islamic republic...
...only Arab country in a position to exercise a moderating influence on Iran. Last week Syria's Deputy Foreign Minister, Nasser Qaddour, declared that his country, despite its close ties to Iran, could not accept an invasion of any Arab state, "because if we agreed to abandon certain parts of Arab territories, we should also have to abandon Palestine.' But the Syrians have no objection to Iran's insistence that Saddam Hussein must go: President Hafez Assad dislikes him as intensely as Khomeini does...
...Wherever you go with rugby, they always try to show you a good time," he explains. Roberts' four years with Harvard's intrepid ruggers--he was president of the team this year--have bred a spirit of confidence and happy abandon around him that lets everyone know, without question, that Roy is going to be a big success. This fall Roberts will take his show on the road to Hollywood, where he will "try to get involved in some sort of entertainment, preferably film." Having worked on four years of Hasty Pudding and Kirkland House shows, he wants to produce...
...organized-crime figures before he joined the Reagan Cabinet. "This is heavy political baggage," admitted one aide, who conceded that the President's reluctance to distance himself from Donovan threatened to make it "a shoestring Lance case." That was a reference to Jimmy Carter's refusal to abandon his Georgia buddy Bert Lance, whom he had appointed Budget Director, until disclosures about Lance's wheeler-dealer banking practices forced Lance to resign his Cabinet post...