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During the height of the aerial bombardment, Begin said that Lebanese President Elias Sarkis was welcome to come to Jerusalem to negotiate peace with Israel. Begin also demanded that Syrian troops withdraw from Lebanon, and declared that such Arab states as Syria, Saudi Arabia and Iraq should admit Palestinian refugees now living in Lebanon. The Beirut government angrily declined the invitation, and Premier Selim Hoss dismissed the Begin offer as "blackmail." Lebanon needed the Syrians to maintain order, said Hoss, and in any case the matter was none of Israel's business. Ever ready with an inflammatory phrase, Palestine...
...Muggers' Express. Since then Sliwa has branched out. Every night the teams meet at Sliwa's McDonald's at 9 p.m., then head out in patrols of four. Though most members accepted into the Magnificent 13 have had some training in the martial arts, and some admit to carrying knives for protection when journeying alone at night, on patrol they have no weapons and even refused the walkie-talkie radios that the Transit Authority urged them to use. They do not want to seem part of the police. Patrolling, they check out the stations first, particularly those...
...readers, it turns out, mean something else by the bias they criticize: they mean the tendency of newspapers to "emphasize bad news over the good." They are convinced that this is done just to sell papers; they admit to liking to read crime news but feel a little ashamed in doing so. They think their home town is better than the newspaper paints it. Talking to his own readers in Dayton, Editor Rosenfeld found them questioning the editor's self-righteous conviction that he only reports a world he never made: "Readers see us as moral vigilantes . . . the voice...
Though Radcliffe dropped its race last week to the Big Green women, the loss--by the narrowest of half-seat margins--does not really represent a weakness in the 'Cliffe machine. The 2-1 women will make no excuses for the loss, but all admit that the team has been psyching up for Yale for the past two weeks and in the process. Dartmouth was overlooked. Hence, the unexpected defeat...
Looking back on Watergate, Weicker said that the key issues of the scandal were the misuse of government and the refusal of Congress to admit its duty to watch the executive, problems which remain unsolved today...