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...part, Begin tried to hold himself above the fray. He announced that he was prepared to meet President Reagan and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to revive the long-stalled talks on autonomy for the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. The prospect of an early election should not be an obstacle to a summit, he argued. Said Begin to the visiting Egyptians: "Please tell my friend President Sadat that Israel is ready to renew the autonomy negotiations at any moment...
...this that the Rouge was "brutalized" by U.S. actions. Nowhere have the Khmer Rouge gone on record explaining their actions as a necessary result of U.S. bombings and other military actions, and Shawcross has not demonstrated that Khmer Rouge words or actions changed after the United States entered the fray. Perhaps Shawcross should listen to Sihanouk, who upon a stay in a liberated zone in 1973, observed that U.S. bombings were "violent and profuse, but fortunately not particularly effective...
...that move us most because they move us directly, through straightforward characters, simple moral conflicts and idealized talk. Reagan once called himself "the Errol Flynn of B movies," which was astute (except that Errol Flynn was also the Errol Flynn of B movies). The President who remains above the fray yet is also capable of stirring the people is the kind of President of whose life B movies are made. After several years of The Deer Hunter and All the President's Men, perhaps The Ronald Reagan Story is just what the country ordered...
...hilariously garbled obscenities. A Saigon prostitute, blinking and cooing like a neon China doll, whispers rote nothings into our hero's ear; he thinks she's talking politics. A combat photographer boasts of the limbs he has lost in action and lures the reporter into the fray. "These flights are ab-stract!" he exults as the bomber tails into its fatal dive...
Such an assault may be imminent. Evangelist Jerry Falwell, leader of Moral Majority, whose sermons on television and radio reach an estimated 25 million people, plans to enter the fray early next year and is seeking allies among blacks, as well as Catholics, Jews and Mormons...