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...make numerous decisions about how best to present I Henry IV at Stratford-on-Housatonic rather Stratford-on-Avon. In his printed credo, Coe announces as his goal to "realize, to as great a degree as possible, the playwright's original intention." Fine, but Coe has proceeded to depart from his promise in several ways...
...fate hung in the balance. Israel's blitz had thoroughly scrambled the pieces of the Middle East puzzle, posing enormous risks and offering unexpected opportunities to work for peace in that embattled and strategically vital corner of the world. If the P.L.O. were neutralized and the Syrians persuaded to depart the country, there would be a chance that a strong, stable Lebanese government could be shaped from the various Christian and Muslim factions that shared power before the 1975-76 civil war. The battering of the P.L.O. military forces also raised faint hopes that such moderate states as Saudi Arabia...
...formal reply, but Israeli guns finally fell silent 24 hours later than Haig had requested. However, an aide traveling with Begin in the U.S. last week told TIME that Israel would not commit itself to a formal cease-fire but would consider arrangements to allow the P.L.O. to depart from the capital peacefully. Said the aide: "We don't mind at all if the P.L.O. evacuates Beirut. We won't fire at anyone who does not fire...
...source close to the case, "pretty innocent and innocuous stuff." But in China, where even some street maps and the government's daily translations of foreign press dispatches are restricted, the papers were official secrets. Wichser's treatment, however, drew a protest from the U.S. State Department over China's "excessively literal" interpretation of the consular convention covering U.S. citizens in China. Shortly thereafter, Wichser was released on the proviso that she depart the country within 48 hours. She did, leaving behind the Chinese economics student she had hoped to marry, as well as the unidentified Chinese...
...think I would depart from the no-first use declaration because it does have a strong effect on Europeans....Everything I've seen of European responses, they want the residual uncertainly in the Russians' mind that a war in Europe on conventional terms could lead to a nuclear escalation, and the idea of going to a purely non-nuclear defense. I think, creates considerable anxiety. I think you can get about 85 percent of the benefits that a no-first use pledge would bring about...while avoiding some of those intense political costs of creating uncertainty in Europe...