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Then, too, Haig is fearful that Lebanon could again erupt in violence, thereby wrecking any chance of a peace settlement or an "evenhanded" U.S. policy in the region. Says one U.S. official: "Israel would go to war, and we would have to decide between supporting Israel or rejecting Israel, and that would be an impossible choice...
...fact that stock prices have lagged behind inflation for a decade leads some analysts to expect a great bull market to erupt some time in the 1980s. Says Harry Jacobs, chairman of Bache Halsey: "Over a long period of time, the stock prices that HULL we are seeing now will be viewed as cheap...
Though predicting earthquakes is an "in-exact science," Adam M. Dziewonski, professor of Geology, said yesterday that another one of the same magnitude--about 5.8 on the Richter scale--will erupt again in the near future...
...hand, is the frantic bigotry expressed by two teenage girls in Qiryat Shemona, another besieged northern town. Both girls are chatty and friendly, except when it comes to Arabs: "They have terrible eyes. Oh, terrible! And mustaches!" When you ask if they would ever consider marrying an Arab, they erupt like hens: "Are you crazy?" The attitudes of most Israeli children fall somewhere between the extremes of Hadara and those girls. The majority deal with their hatreds and fears on a case-by-case basis, and they are likely to shift their opinions according to the nearness of the danger...
Haig's aggressive style is alien to the laid-back Californians at the White House, who feel that the Secretary's well-publicized turf battles with colleagues were as avoidable as they were embarrassing. The volatile former NATO commander still has a tendency to erupt at slights, but he appears more secure than he did a few months ago, possibly because he enjoys more frequent access to the President...