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...casualties in Lebanon. Israelis were also worried about the cost of the war in terms of their nation's prestige abroad. Night after night, throughout much of the world, television screens had shown Israeli forces using their sophisticated American-made weaponry to produce devastation in densely populated West Beirut. Abba Eban, a former Foreign Minister and a leading member of the opposition Labor Party in the Knesset, was undoubtedly correct when he concluded, "Israel's policies, image, character, values and aspirations are less understood and admired today than in any other period of her history...
Other well-respected Israelis have also strongly opposed the Beirut siege. Abba Eban, the former Foreign Minister and onetime Ambassador to the U.S., declared in the Jerusalem Post: "This war is already on the way to becoming the most traumatic of all the Israeli experiences ... These weeks have been a dark age in the moral history of the Jewish people...
...having fun in all the ways taught by Western movies, visitors and foreign radio broadcasts. In and around Moscow last week, youngsters were boardsailing, skateboarding and hang gliding; practicing yoga, karate, kung fu and fad diets; exchanging Bruce Lee posters; disco dancing; listening to tapes of Diana Ross and ABBA; and going to see Dustin Hoffman in Kramer vs. Kramer and Jane Fonda in The China Syndrome, two of several U.S. movies playing in Moscow...
...sold AWACS to Saudi Arabia and reached an agreement to sell advanced weapons to King Hussein of Jordan (whose family came from Saudi Arabia at Britain's behest in 1946). In the process, the U.S. has simply given Begin more incentive to act intransigently and to defy America. Even Abba Eban, foreign minister in the Israeli Labor governments from 1966 to 1974, said at Harvard this month that "it is better to be alive than to be popular-because if I'm dead, I might be briefly popular at the funeral oration, but I won't be around...
...Police remain second only to Abba in international record sales. Abba is an ineffectual, apolitical pop group bordering on muzak. The Jam, the most popular, most political, raw yet delicate, trio in England, will never sell as many albums worldwide as the Police do in America alone. Being on a sales level of Abba shows the kind of "importance" this trio cares about, and makes all the more repugnant Ghosts' French song, its song that murmurs. "When you've made your secret journey, you will be a holy man" and its whole slick psuedo-euro-disco flavor. I hope they...