Word: commanders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aiming at Palestinian guerrilla offices in a crowded neighborhood, Israeli warplanes killed some 300 Lebanese and Palestinians and wounded another 800. Even many of Begin's own countrymen, especially those from the Western-oriented Ashkenazi community, were shocked. Former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin declared that the Palestinian command posts and offices had been in Beirut for years but that, because of the political price involved, previous governments had felt that Israel could derive little benefit from attempting to destroy them. Said Rabin: "Israel used to have the moral right on its side, and in the methods it used...
...British."Then they refused a British offer to "clarify" Whitehall's position on possible steps to ameliorate their treatment unless the I.R.A.'s prison representative could attend the talks. The British could not accept this condition, since it might be seen as recognition of the I.R.A. command structure...
...promised retaliation for the "air massacre" that the Israelis had committed in Beirut. At week's end an alliance of leftist Muslim groups in Lebanon called for the stationing of Soviet-made SA-6 antiaircraft missiles in Beirut. Such a move would challenge Israel's command of the skies over the city; it would also increase the danger of further escalation by one more deadly notch...
...gross national product. Top big-city law firms like Chicago's Reuben & Proctor currently bill clients as much as $200 an hour, up from a high of $150 in 1975. Superstar trial lawyers like Boston's F. Lee Bailey and San Francisco's Melvin Belli regularly command flat fees that work out to as much as $300 an hour. New York's Louis Nizer, whose clients have included Blacklist Victim John Henry Faulk and major corporations in the film industry, commands a phenomenal $350 an hour, thus earning the equivalent of the nation's median...
...parties thrown by one Mid-western home entertainer, guests are invited to the media room to watch an instant videocast of the other guests out in the garden. Many parents project Atari games like Space Invaders and Missile Command for their children on a 7-ft. screen. Super Bowl games look super that way too. Says Chicago Lawyer Charles Witz, a divorcee who has three sons at home: "I encourage them to bring their friends here, where I can build some control over their environment." Boasts Witz, who has projection TV and a library of film and music: "I have...