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...session, onstage, front and center, was Ariel Sharon, who had uttered not a word in public since the news of the massacre broke in Israel four days earlier. Head bowed, he lumbered slowly into the dining room and quietly looked over his speech. Later, as Begin entered the Knesset chamber, he carefully averted his eyes from his Defense Minister...
...list is very confusing," admits Octavio Muñoz Corral, president of the Juárez Chamber of Commerce, who is futilely struggling to persuade Americans to keep buying below the border. Indeed, the uncertainty has been the main factor keeping Americans from shopping for much of anything in Mexico. "The tourists are scared away," says Salesman Manuel Vasquez, surveying his empty marble-products shop in Juárez, which logically should be packed with Texans seeking more for their dollar. "Our business is off about 50%. Capitalism works. This type of stupid socialism doesn...
Blocking currency movements with regulations tends to be as fruitless as trying to control water with a rake. Trade has been severely stymied. "There is no practical way to handle transactions with Mexico," says Mark Miles of the El Paso Chamber of Commerce. "If we got a check from a Mexican, there is nothing we could do with it. And what do we do with pesos?" Says Doug Fuller, a Southern California Ford dealer: "It's kind of a catch-22. They can't get dollars and we can't take pesos...
Hoping to have the matter settled before the legislators took off for the summer to campaign for re-election, proponents quickly brought the question to the House floor. But there, they found unexpectedly strong opposition. Not only did the discussion in the lower chamber drag on, but a majority of the members approved a pair of amendments that effectively reversed the original meaning of the statement--to insist that a freeze take place only when the Russians cleaned up their act in Poland, and saw the error of 35 years of foreign policy, and withdrew from Eastern Europe...
...enough to deprive Reagan of the fragile working coalition that allowed him to pass his major tax and spending bills. The seats of 19 Democrats, 13 Republicans and one independent are at stake in the Senate; the Democrats might cut the current G.O.P. eight-member majority in that chamber to five or six. There are also 36 governorships up for grabs, 20 held by Democrats and 16 by Republicans. The Democrats hope to pick up about eight more...