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...caused by Israel's de facto annexation last month of the Golan Heights, which Israel seized from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War. When the Reagan Administration criticized the Israeli action, Prime Minister Menachem Begin lashed out at Washington, accusing the U.S. of treating Israel like "a banana republic...
...grandfatherly Member of Parliament, on suspicion of having plotted a coup against the government. A 24-year-old Dutch-born auto mechanic was detained in Salisbury and later deported simply for drawing mustaches and horns on posters of Mugabe and Zimbabwe's President, the Reverend Canaan Banana. In addition, whites complain that groups of tourists have been roughed up by soldiers-in one instance, for stumbling into an area reserved for North Korean advisers, who were imported by Mugabe to train Zimbabwean security forces...
...declare that you are 'punishing' Israel. What kind of talk is that, 'punishing' Israel? Are we a vassal state? A banana republic? Are we 14-year-old boys that if they don't behave they have their knuckles smacked...
...Spadolini felt secure enough to confront 57.5 million fellow Italians with a sobering economic warning. The country is sliding into recession at an alarming rate he said in a televised speech a month ago. Unless inflation is brought under control, warned Spadolini, Italy could end up as a Mediterranean banana republic...
...Lester Glassner and Brownie Harris. Lovingly assembled by a five-and-ten freak and movie junkie, this compendium of glittering gimcracks from the '30s and '40s provides a deep wallow in nostalgia. Among the glories of Woolworthlessness are cutouts of Carmen Miranda with the plaster-banana wall plaques she inspired, a Charlie McCarthy paper doll "with movable mouth," and a lurid World War II poster of a starlet straddling a bomb inscribed TOKYO EXPRESS...