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...midweek, TIME has learned, Reagan's enduring patience with the Israeli government began to crack. The President drafted a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, accusing him of obstructing U.S. efforts to reach an agreement over Beirut and warning Begin that the U.S. could even be forced to deal directly with the P.L.O. if he did not stop making it so difficult for Habib to negotiate with the Palestinians through intermediaries. When U.S. Ambassador to Israel Samuel Lewis delivered the letter to Begin in person, the Israeli leader promised to cooperate, but he remained silent at the threat...
...capital itself. The Americans also insist that the army should make every effort to consolidate control of the nation's highways, where guerrillas have robbed motorists and burned some 80 vehicles in the past two weeks. Instead, the Defense Minister, General Jose Guillermo Garcia, decided to commit crack regiments to chase after guerrillas in Morazan. "It was a stupid, macho decision," said a Western ambassador in San Salvador. "They have to clean out the vital areas of the country before going up into that wasteland...
...lewd nude poses. When increased quantities of this material began appearing five or six years ago, legislators in 20 states enacted tough statutes banning the sale not only of obscene films and magazines portraying youthful sexual conduct, but of nonobscene ones as well. Bluntly put, the legislators wanted to crack down on dirty pictures of children even if the material involved was not "prurient" and "offensive" when judged by community standards. So when Manhattan Bookstore Owner Paul Ferber was sentenced in 1978 to 45 days in jail for selling two nonobscene films, he complained that his First Amendment right...
Thompson extended the count to 3-2. the gold runner inched toward a tied score. the stretch the pitch...CRACK! Thompson connected on one of his famous line drives sending the runner home and the center fielder scurrying after the ball...
...Britain's Parachute Regiment moved rapidly out of their hard-won corner of East Falkland near the settlement of Port San Carlos, taken by invasion only a week earlier, and descended 20 miles south near the settlement of Darwin. Using helicopters to hop across the boggy ground, the crack British troops confronted an Argentine garrison once estimated at about 600. There were reports of sharp fighting, and then the British Defense Ministry tersely announced that Her Majesty's troops had captured both Darwin and the neighboring settlement of Goose Green, site of an important airfield. Said Defense Ministry Spokesman...