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Iran has indeed received support from practically every direction. Among its backers have been the Soviet Union, which is trying to form a long-term friendship with Tehran; Syria, which regards Iraq as an implacable enemy; and, in the early days of the war, the Palestine Liberation Organization, which felt obliged to follow Syrian policy because of the strong Syrian role in Lebanon. An unlikely backer of the Tehran regime has been Israel, which regards Iraq as a more dangerous threat than Iran and thereby follows the ancient adage "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." Last week Israeli...
MINNESOTA. The only retiring Midwestern Republican who faced a clear possibility of defeat this year, Albert Quie, 58, a staunch but low-key Reagan backer, has seen Minnesota's budget drop from a $292 million surplus in 1979 to a deficit that is expected to reach $800 million by summer. This happened even though Quie, who campaigned on a promise to cut taxes in a state many thought was recession-proof, was eventually forced to reverse himself and raise them as the economy faltered. Quie's popularity plunged. As his campaign manager quaintly put it, the Governor decided...
...taking a bath, going to bed), you may be sure that Stacy Keach, as the father figure she has for some reason taken it into her head to seduce, will be around to catch a tantalizing glimpse of this or that secondary sexual characteristic. Since Zadora is the principal backer's wife, and this is nothing if not a vanity production, poor Keach is required at these moments to go slack-jawed with awe and wonder. As her looks may most charitably be described as an acquired taste, his persuasiveness in these scenes cannot be praised too highly. This...
...Pratt, editor of the Venture Capital Journal, small businesses created 3 million jobs in the past ten years. The largest 1,000 American firms, on the other hand, recorded virtually no net gain in employment during the same period. Says Benjamin Rosen, an electronics industry analyst and a financial backer of new enterprises: "These companies represent the true vitality of the American economy. We are wasting too many of our resources trying to keep alive dying industries like steel and automobiles rather than paying attention to and helping these new firms." he odds against success, of course, are high...
...Ilopango bomb blasts had echoes in Washington, where the Reagan Administration is the principal backer of El Salvador's President José Napoleón Duarte. Following the raid, the State Department declared that "we must be prepared to increase our economic and our military assistance to El Salvador as necessary. We are presently reassessing needs on an urgent basis." Among other things, that relief package was now bound to include more helicopters...