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The purpose of the journey, said National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, is to "respond to the new realities in foreign policy and the appearance of new and important countries in the world." It was a windy way to describe the 15,000-mile four-country tour that Jimmy Carter begins...
Indeed, in Jerusalem's rhetoric, the peril represented by the Palestinians in southern Lebanon seemed almost deliberately overblown, as if the Begin regime had figured that the very size of Operation Stone of Wisdom might raise doubts in Washington and other capitals about whether this trip was really necessary. Inevitably...
After Begin presented the Israeli proposals for Sinai, the West Bank and Gaza, the Egyptian looked at his watch and announced: "I think we worked hard today. Let us take a break before lunch and make a small trip." Even the drivers and bodyguards had been given no warning of...
However, the most interesting aspect of the excursion, according to Ford, was talking to the cadets and seeing them "walk around with sabres and in full uniform."
No blinding light or voice from heaven for Clive Staples Lewis; but his conversion on that picnic excursion had some of the impact of St. Paul's. The ruddy-faced writer's works were to lure innumerable souls into the precincts of belief. Fourteen years after his death...