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...Administration was not seriously concerned about the Soviet reaction. "It didn't bother us one bit," said an Administration official. Brezhnev's letter, delivered by Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin to the State Department, was interpreted as a mild warning that Moscow might respond to any deployment of U.S. troops in Lebanon by sending a battalion of its own to Syria; both of these actions would violate an unwritten understanding between the superpowers, dating from 1973, not to send any forces into the Middle East. White House Spokesman Larry Speakes said that Reagan had received the Soviet leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sending in the Marines | 7/19/1982 | See Source »

...bother to recall the gruesome civil war inflicted on the Lebanese by the PLO when it established itself in Lebanon nearly a decade ago. By adding its muscle to the forces of Moslem extremists, the PLO helped topple an already fragile coalition government of Christians and Moslem moderates. In 1975 and 1976, 50,000 people, most of them civilians, died in Lebanon...

Author: By Antony J. Blinken, | Title: Lebanon and the Facts | 7/16/1982 | See Source »

...best shot of my life." He has won so much money playing golf, nearly $3 million, that for once the money involved was forgotten by every one. Some golfers are playing for something other than money. If you guaranteed some of them second place, they would not even bother to show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Shot of His Life | 7/5/1982 | See Source »

...Molyneux's philon, why clearly applies off as well as on-campus: "You have to decide who has power and you have to bother them...

Author: By Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, | Title: Marching to a Fast Drummer | 6/10/1982 | See Source »

...with much less money. They prowl the world a little outside the law, at great risk-dope smugglers sometimes, or else the dreamy, suburbanite Leave-It-to-Beaver youth between ashrams, on the road to Katmandu. The trouble is that these wanderers rarely can write very well, or bother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Is the Going Still Good? | 5/31/1982 | See Source »

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