Word: blitzkrieg
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...longer plausible that a Soviet armored blitzkrieg into West Germany would trigger a U.S. retaliatory blow from North Dakota, since that in turn might trigger a counterretaliation against...
...P.R.I, is an institution: since its organization in 1929, it has not lost a single presidential election. The President, the most influential man in the party, rules Mexico like a virtual monarch for six years. Then, after consulting with a few powerbrokers, he designates his heir. In a blitzkrieg campaign, the successor is paraded before the voters, who give him an overwhelming victory. Says a Western diplomat in Mexico City: "The only comparable party in the world is the Soviet Communist Party...
...SUMMER for journalism After being virtually shut out of the war in the Falklands because of geography and censorship, the industry went out of control when the Israel is invaded Lebanon Reports preposterous beyond belief came back in torrents. The Nazi blitzkrieg had nothing on the unfortunately named Operation Peace for the Galilee. Within no time, the Israelis had slaughtered a sizable percentage of the inhabitants of sunny southern Lebanon, and if you could believe many of the most respected news mongers in the world, as well as some world leaders and the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
Despite its damage to Israel's image abroad (see box), Begin's blitzkrieg has dramatically boosted the government's domestic support. A PORI Institute poll taken in the third week of July showed that Begin's approval rating had leaped from 47.7% at the war's outset to 57.6%. Sharon's had risen from 48.9% to 56.6%. To be sure, a growing minority of Israelis have expressed reservations about the invasion. Last week 2,000 army reservists sent Begin a petition calling on him not to order an invasion of West Beirut. The Peace...
...designed to be seen, visually, with action and sound," says Madden, who shows up as a sort of visual product himself, neatly suited out and playing host on the show like an anchorman cut loose from his moorings. He remains unflappable, unfazed in the face of a blitzkrieg lecture on the ratings by a house expert ("Gimme a Break's sort of a joke, Taxi's O.K., fair, Devlin hasn't occurred yet, the long range is good for ABC . . .") and commendably noncommittal when the president of Showtime drops in to plug Romance, a spicy soap opera...