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...Israeli retaliatory campaign against Shi'ite guerrillas in southern Lebanon, known as the "iron fist" policy, came painfully close to America's TV screens last week. As Israeli forces stepped up their attacks on Shi'ite villages, two members of a CBS News camera crew were killed and a third was seriously injured by a shell from an Israeli tank. The three men, all Lebanese citizens, had been photographing a burned-out car outside the village of Kfar Melki that was under attack by an Israeli raiding party. CBS sent off a protest to Israel's Prime Minister, Shimon Peres...
...Washington Post reporter. "For calling him a wimp? I am willing to concede that perhaps he just walks, talks and acts like a little arrogant wimp. But maybe it's disinformation." In the end, though, Dornan wimped out. What was he doing with Tom's collar in his fist? "I was just straightening...
...portray the avowedly peaceful Front as a champion of the militant African National Congress and thus justify a purge of all such opponents of apartheid. But Botha's supporters claim that he is trying to defuse "revolutionary elements" before negotiating with black moderates and point out that the fist of short-term law enforcement is by no means incompatible with the open hand of long-term conciliation. Nonetheless, said U.S. Ambassador to Pretoria Herman Nickel, "The plain fact is that images of repression will always blot the more complicated story of reform...
...have been greatly exaggerated." (Apparently, Russians read and claim Mark Twain.) Kasparov, who had been sitting in the back of the hall, was stunned. Striding onto the podium, he demanded to know why the match had been called off. "You knew I wanted to continue," he shouted, shaking his fist. "They are trying to deprive me of my chance." With that, he stormed out of the auditorium. To quell the ensuing pandemonium, an unaccustomed diversion at Soviet press conferences, Campomanes called the players to a private one-hour 45-minute session, after which he announced that Karpov had accepted...
...installing several dozen medium-range missiles in Cuba, Khrushchev aimed to create a nuclear "fist" close to the U.S. The Soviet Union could get a "cheap" nuclear deterrent that would threaten New York, Washington and other vital centers along the East Coast, accomplishing much with very little...