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Meanwhile, the government is also being criticized for the continuing unrest along its northern border with Lebanon. A suicide car bomber drove into an Israeli armored patrol in southern Lebanon last week, wounding two Israelis and killing one Lebanese civilian. Israel quickly retaliated with an air strike on the headquarters of a radical Lebanese group that has claimed responsibility for seven car-bomb attacks on Israeli positions. Peres is said to be ready to adopt stronger antiterrorist measures. "There is no place for incitement and hysteria," Peres said. But, he promised, "there will be no compromise" when it comes...
Arthur, however, had described his espionage activities to the FBI after his arrest, waiving his right to have a lawyer present. As related in court, he said John had begun his contacts with the KGB in a simple way: "He drove to Washington and parked down from the Russian embassy for a couple of nights." Soviet agents noticed him and made contact. Arthur said that early in 1980, after the brothers' electronic repair shop went broke, John told him how he could make a lot of money. At the time, Arthur was feeling very depressed. "We were sitting outside...
...perfervid expectations drove Ruth to murder, Marilyn to fatal overdose. Metaphorically, both women "die of intimate exposure," to quote a character in Insignificance known only as the Actress (Theresa Russell) but plainly meant to represent Monroe. The other three main characters find real-life correlatives just as easily. Indeed, the plot could be synopsized as follows: What if Albert Einstein (Michael Emil) were threatened in his hotel room by Senator Joe McCarthy (Tony Curtis), then visited by Marilyn Monroe, who explains the theory of relativity to its creator, then interrupted by Joe DiMaggio (Gary Busey), who wants a divorce...
...been selling for about $50 a share. The Macy's executives were working last week with the Wall Street firm of Goldman Sachs to line up virtually all that money. The high buyout price, apparently designed to repel rival offers and avoid a bidding war for the company, drove up the value of other retailing issues as investors speculated that a wave of buyouts was about to break over the department-store industry...
...Bieber drove a four-barreled bargain. At one point last week, the 6-ft. 5-in. union chief met with Lee Iacocca in the Chrysler chairman's office in a session complete with desk pounding, raised voices and colorful language. When Bieber finally presented the new three-year contract to his ten-member U.A.W. bargaining committee, the group gave him a round of applause and approved the deal unanimously. U.A.W. leaders predicted that the rank and file would ratify the deal early this week and return promptly to work...