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...affirmative. Sandy decides to desert the ranks of Position A. "Now, Thomas," says Adler, "you stand alone. But you can still defend yourself. You can say they're talking rot." The discussion goes back to grades. Thomas admits to having received a C. Then Garrick plunges into the fray. He wants to know if Thomas thinks his teacher was "totally subjective" in giving him that...
After so many false starts, the cloak of secrecy sheltering the operation was beginning to fray. On May 22, word of the raid was leaked to Moshe Shahal, a Knesset opposition party leader. His source: former Defense Minister Ezer Weizman, who viewed the proposed strike as "adventurist." At roughly the same time, Begin's office received two additional intelligence reports that the Iraqis were prepared to activate the reactor (make it "hot" in technical jargon) as early as the first week in July. On June 5, Begin gave orders to launch the attack two days later. His day of decision...
...election fight begins, Mitterrand remains above the fray...
Settling into his gilded Louis XVI-style office at the Elysee Palace last week, the Socialist seemed perfectly at ease with the august French presidential style that Charles de Gaulle once described as being above the "petty elements of the everyday political fray." In a week dominated by largely symbolic meetings and gestures, President Francois Mitterrand helped calm jittery nerves at home and abroad by projecting the image of the measured statesman rather than the Socialist firebrand his critics have portrayed...
...Giscard's France, parliament has relatively little power. It has managed to discourage Giscard from pursuing some of his legislative projects. Since only 119 members of his 274-seat ruling parliamentary coalition are formal Giscard supporters, he has on occasion tactically withdrawn from a potential fray. Giscard's Premier, Raymond Barre, however has used special constitutional powers to ram through government budgets over the grumbling of Gaullist allies. Says Giscard: "I have exercised my powers as they are conferred by the constitution. These critics are trying to weaken power. I say it bluntly: those who want weak power...