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...disbanded the National Assembly, which had been controlled by Giscard's coalition, an amalgam of the Gaullist and centrist forces that had run the government for 23 years. In the campaign to elect a new Assembly, Mitterrand was threatened from two directions. If the right regained control of the chamber, France could face a constitutional crisis; the institutions of the Fifth Republic are not designed to work if the Elysée and the Assembly are controlled by opposing forces. On the other flank, if the Communists did well, they could force their way into a coalition government and impose their...
When the time came, she raised her hand so tentatively that for a moment there was some doubt in the chamber as to how she was going to vote. But Jeane Kirkpatrick, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, did indeed vote yes last week, thereby joining in one of the harshest United Nations rebukes of Israel that the U.S. had ever supported...
...ranged in theory to a total suspension of all U.S. military aid to Israel, an action that would produce a fire storm of criticism from Israel's backers in the U.S. Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker hurried to the White House to express the sentiment of the upper chamber. His advice, as a Baker intimate put it, was "Take some kind of action, but don't go too far. Buy time and let the heat of the moment pass." In the end, the group decided that four F-16s scheduled for delivery to Israel on Friday should...
Since then, no one has doubted that Regan speaks with authority. Last week he was introduced at a U.S. Chamber of Commerce lunch as "the most effective spokesman for this Administration." Naturally, there were good reasons for the Secretary's warm reception before that bastion of capitalist influence. In response to the complaints of corporate leaders, the White House had only a few days earlier restored several cuts in business taxes that had been shaved from the package the week before. Particularly satisfying to the business leaders was a revised depreciation schedule that generously increases write-offs...
Both the IAEA and the French designers of the reactor flatly denied the existence of any such secret room at any level. The construction had been under constant French supervision. In all likelihood, Begin was referring to the reactor's "guide chamber," a sealed area in such installations where physicists conduct experiments with the neutrons produced by the reactor...