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...home, Weizman's trip precipitated an open fight within Israel's seven-month-old National Unity government. Peres had allowed Weizman to accept the Egyptian government's invitation because the former Defense Minister played an important role in the 1979 Camp David peace talks, and is generally thought to be the Egyptians' favorite Israeli politician. To assuage the feelings of Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, leader of the Likud bloc and the next Prime Minister under the Labor-Likud coalition agreement, Peres described the Weizman mission as a "private visit." That was agreeable to Shamir until word got out that Weizman...
Controversy swirls around the Justice Department's handling of the case. Some industry observers and legal experts were surprised by the department's decision not to cite individual Hutton employees in the May indictment. Fomon conceded to the New York Times that he was wrong to accept the terms of the May settlement. Said he: "If I had to do it over again . . . the individuals involved would have stood by themselves." Some members of Congress say that Justice's investigation of the case was superficial. Those complaints led the House subcommittee to begin its own probe. Attorney General Edwin Meese...
...grounds for Reagan to claim he had not rewarded terrorism when the swap later came off. If this course was politically advantageous to Reagan, it was also part of a set of tactical understandings that were crucial to freeing the hostages. The press finds such unacknowledged arrangements hard to accept. It created a particularly sticky problem for shows such as Brinkley's and Meet the Press, which rely on harrying public figures into quotable answers, while their guests, grateful for the exposure, grin back at their tormentors. This time guests responded with some asperity. Shultz warned his questioners about "daring...
...R.S.C. has been equally innovative with Breaking the Silence, a quasi-biographical work that centers on Playwright Stephen Poliakoff s grandfather, a Russian Jewish aristocrat who refuses to accept the changes that Lenin's Soviet revolution have brought. Forced to live in near squalor on a railway carriage while assigned as a roving inspector, he stubbornly devotes all his energies to developing a talking motion picture. Although he is an untrained amateur, there are glints of genius in him. The play deftly balances his private quest against vast social change, and culminates in an agonizing exile from a homeland that...
...ties with Taiwan, which Beijing regards as a renegade province. In secret negotiations over the past decade, papal representatives cleared most obstacles to this kind of understanding, but one major sticking point has remained: the Pope's right to name bishops in China, which Beijing refuses to accept because it would mean ceding authority to a foreign power...