Word: closers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second burst of Middle East diplomacy just 22 hours later last week, President Reagan met with Lebanon's embattled President Amin Gemayel, and heard the closer U.S.-Israel ties criticized in a personal meeting with Prince Bandar ibn Sultan, Saudi Arabia's Ambassador to the U.S. Although mostly planned in advance, the week's activity had an air of urgency. Repeatedly frustrated in its efforts to solve the Lebanon crisis and the Palestinian dilemma, and with U.S. Marines still exposed to terrorism, shelling and sniper fire at the Beirut airport, the Administration felt it was time...
...reaching a rapprochement with Shamir, the Administration overrode the objections of Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, who has long feared that the closer the U.S. draws to Israel, the more it will lose its influence with the moderate Arab nations on whom eventual stability in the Middle East, and its oil, depends. Said a Pentagon official about the role of Reagan and Shultz in the decision to embrace Israel: "They went over us like a steamroller." In effect, Shultz and Reagan decided that it was better to cast America's lot even more fully with an old friend, no matter...
...definitely a little closer than the Crimson would have liked...
...match was closer than the 6-3 score indicates. Crimson Co-Captain Jim Lubowitz had to come from two games down to win his match, 3-2. "Jim made a tremendous comeback against one of the top college players in the country. He played the best match of the day," said Fish...
...freshman injured by a falling goal post after the Harvard-Yale game will be transferred to a hospital closer to home today, a hospital spokesman said yesterday...