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...Beirut Massacre...
...outside and laid down the disciplinary law later. When labor organizers sought to unionize Medical Area personnel two years ago, it was Steiner who persistently--and successfully--lobbied workers to turn down the union. And just two weeks ago, when protestors demonstrated at Holyoke Center against Israeli incursions in Beirut, it was Steiner who quietly stood nearby and made sure the peace was kept...
With the departure of its fighters from Beirut, the P.L.O. faces a major test of leadership. The organization's military option has been diminished, if not eliminated, for at least a year or two. As a result, the P.L.O. has become more vulnerable to diplomatic influence from a number of directions, not the least of them the U.S. While Chairman Yasser Arafat and his entourage consider what to do next, there are promising hints of change among Palestinians in the West Bank. Even some of the more radical P.L.O. supporters have reacted favorably to President Reagan's initiative...
Memoirs of a President Once again an all too familiar tale of bloodshed and tragedy in the Middle East dominates the world's news. In Lebanon, foreign soldiers troop the streets of Beirut in hopes of keeping that country's feuding factions from one another's throats. In Israel, a nation shaken by the question of its culpability, by omission or commission, for the massacre of Palestinians in Beirut, Prime Minister Menachem Begin faces the greatest challenge yet to his five-year rule. Against this backdrop, TIME begins excerpting on the following pages the memoirs of an American President...
...front of Aspen. We embraced enthusiastically, went to the helicopter and flew to the White House. On the way, we talked about the need for action to bring peace to Lebanon, and Begin promised to help us by giving his full support to the government in Beirut and doing everything possible to minimize bloodshed...