Word: bonding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan has been one of the staunchest believers in America's bond with Israel, but his feelings of loyalty have been deeply affected by the continuing bloodshed in Lebanon. "I lost patience a long time ago," the President noted sharply to reporters on returning from Camp David the weekend before Israel's latest assault. More than anything else, the vivid television coverage of Israel's relentless pummeling of civilian areas has altered the President's thinking. Referring to one powerful image broadcast a week ago, an aide says: "That picture of the baby with arms burnt...
Reagan adopted the view that challenging Israel too harshly would sacrifice what remains of America's influence over its prickly ally. "Our relationship is our strongest leverage," says an official. Severing this tenuous bond by cutting off weapons or recalling Habib "would give the Israelis a carte blanche to go into West Beirut," says one of Reagan's senior advisers. It was agreed, however, that the U.S. should vote for a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israel if the measure could be modified to include references to the need for P.L.O. restraint, and if the mention of sanctions...
...like a mother who says, 'Oh, Johnny couldn't have done that!' when she learned about a crime he committed." It took the jurors just 2½ hours to agree with the prosecutor's version. But at trial's end, with Chanslor free on bond pending his appeal, little seemed to have changed. "I intend to take care of her as I always have," Chanslor said as he wheeled his wife out of the courtroom and she held his arm. And to her he added, "It's O.K., honey, I'm not going...
...counterpart to this emotion-packed relationship is provided by the unemotional scientists who threaten to destroy the bond between child and creature. In the opening sequence, they are filmed from a child's perspective, so that their heads are out of the camera's range. They become more foreign to the audience than the spaceman himself. They are the enemy because they represent a complete lack of subjective feeling. To Elliott, E.T. is a friend--a cross between a pet and a bosom buddy; to them, he is merely a subject for scrutiny...
SENTENCED. Sun Myung Moon, 62, founder of the Unification Church; to 18 months in prison for tax evasion; in U.S. District Court in New York City. Moon was also fined the maximum $25,000 and is free on a $250,000 bond pending an appeal...