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Palestinian leaders in Beirut dismiss any notion that they would try to replace King Hussein, however much he has incurred their enmity. The P.L.O., however, does take the threat of an Israeli invasion seriously, and it has reinforced its strongholds in southern Lebanon. The Lebanese government, meanwhile, is also deeply worried over the threat of a new conflagration on its soil. Lebanon last week sought an urgent meeting of the U.N. Security Council to ask for 1,000 more troops for UNIFIL, the 6,000-member U.N. force stationed in southern Lebanon to help prevent another Middle East...
...Tigers have the same deliberate style Coach Peter Carnl demands of all his squads, but they lack their usual precision--hesitating on open shots and flubbing easy fast breaks Not surprisingly, Penn has already beaten them twice, and the basketball fanatics of scenic mid-New Jersey dismiss the season as a failure...
...prosecution suggests that Sunny was planning to divorce Von Bülow over his infidelity and that he was anxious not to lose her money. Defense lawyers dismiss this as a possible motive, though they concede that the marriage had foundered and that Von Bülow had had an affair, reportedly with New York City Socialite Alexandra Isles, a sometime actress who appeared in the television gothic soap opera Dark Shadows. They contend that Sunny was a pathologically shy woman, who assuaged her demons with alcohol, drugs and compulsive eating, and either deliberately or accidentally caused the coma through...
...easy to dismiss the free enterprise zone plan out of hand because it does not conform to traditional Democratic ideas of how unemployment should be confronted. Reagan, however, is not about to endorse Humphrey-Hawkins, and realistically, Congress is not about to pass it. The people who are suggesting enterprise zones were elected with a mandate to change the New Deal approach to social services. The conservative plan may fail totally, and then we'll be rid of it, but as long as it has noble intentions--as this one seems to--it should be allowed to fail honestly...
...beginning of the end of that system everywhere, including, eventually, in the U.S.S.R. President Ronald Reagan proclaimed in a speech at the University of Notre Dame last May: "The West won't contain Communism; it will transcend Communism. It won't bother to denounce it; it will dismiss it as some bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written...