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In Baabda, tank and heavy artillery shells were slashing into P.L.O. positions in the huts and deserted buildings near the edge of the Burj al Barajneh refugee camp. "In many places we were in the open," explained an Israeli briefing officer. "For that reason we had to improve our position...
If Reagan would accept that the pipeline will be built regardless of America cooperation, he could make a deal with the Allies: In return for lifting the sanctions, the President could ask for tighter restrictions on trade credits for an already debt-ridden Eastern Bloc, which will still salvage something...
Even though he had a lock on Senate approval, Shultz took no chances. He let himself be grilled in rehearsal by what the State Department calls its "murder board," a cluster of top aides headed by Under Secretary Lawrence Eagleburger. He studied a thick pile of loose-leaf briefing binders...
At a briefing of the Knesset's restive Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Sharon was pointedly reminded that the war was lasting far longer than the 8 to 24 hours he had orginally promised, and that its aims had shifted from simply clearing out a 25-mile buffer zone...
The bugs and wiretaps placed by the FBI in a windowless Bronx warehouse recorded a sordid tale of dealings between New Jersey's Schiavone Construction Co. and a subcontracting firm run by William Masselli, a soldier in the Genovese Mafia clan. But the FBI did not bring up these...