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...West Bank, the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem." It would be a mistake, Saunders believes, to let Yitzhak Shamir, who is likely to replace Begin as Prime Minister, think he can write his own ticket with the U.S., as Begin did. Adds Saunders: "That would mean letting things drift, and when things drift in the Middle East, they get worse...
...IMPACT of Reagan, the centrist drift of the Democratic Party, and the excitement generated by the showing of Blacks in major mayoral races make now the best time for this strategy. Reagan's policies have caused a new feeling of class consciousness among the working (and not working) classes: I overheard one Black teenager in a Fort Worth Dairy Queen ask another how it was going. The other replied, "Reaganomics...
...recovery looks solid. TIME'S economists predicted that growth in the gross national product, after adjustment for inflation, would slow from its torrid 9.2% annual rate of the second quarter but still glide along at a healthy 4.4% pace in 1984. The unemployment rate is expected to drift downward from its current 9.5% level to 8.2% by the end of next year...
...reading at his house on Martha's Vineyard But the real high point of the season came later. On a 10-day loray into the Tuscan countryside around Lake I rasimeno. Even the name sounds placid, calm and relaxed; his days were spent, the dramatist says, "watching the mist drift off the lake and into the surrounding hills...
...result, Begin became increasingly morose and withdrawn. He avoided speeches, and those he gave were uncharacteristically short. Some of his Cabinet colleagues complained that the government was being allowed to drift without decisive leadership. Begin had become gaunt, almost skeletal; his eyes had a haunted look. Tired, sad and dispirited, Begin had, as an aide put it, "lost the fire." In July, he unexpectedly canceled a visit to Washington, citing "personal reasons...