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...chance not only to re-create an independent and neutral Lebanon but move toward a general Middle East peace based on settlement of the longest-festering problem of all: the aspirations of the Palestinians living in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. In his view, an Israel freed of fears about P.L.O. terrorism would be more willing to grant real autonomy to the Palestinians; the moderate Palestinians, no longer afraid of P.L.O. reprisals, would be more willing to enter the autonomy talks with Israel. Once more last week, Haig argued that public criticism of Israel and Begin...
...early mornings, as mist rose off the Potomac River, Haig often had breakfast with a guest in his seventh-floor State Department aerie, where only his soldier's voice and the ticking of an antique clock broke the solemn silence. At such encounters, his misty ambition was freed. In this fantasy, he was on Capitol Hill putting together a practical budget, making sensible deals with Speaker Tip O'Neill and the Democrats, fashioning legislative maneuvers that made things work rather than standing prettily on ideology. His mind, in these unfettered and rare interludes, was into weapons and food...
...became Argentina's Minister of Labor and Welfare. Perón skillfully used that post to create a power base within Argentina's working class (known as los descamisados, the shirtless ones). Briefly imprisoned by his jealous military colleagues in 1945, Perón was freed when Maria Eva ("Evita") Duarte, who was soon to become his second wife, helped to organize mass demonstrations on his behalf. Elected President a few months later, Perón began building what he called the "third position" between capitalism and Communism, while Evita, until her death in 1952, built a Peronist...
People will shake their heads at the Hinckley jurors for the rest of their days. Except for the probable cheers of the American Civil Liberties Union, the dozen men and women who freed John Hinckley after four days of deliberations made no friends by pardoning his sins...
...would be a chance that a strong, stable Lebanese government could be shaped from the various Christian and Muslim factions that shared power before the 1975-76 civil war. The battering of the P.L.O. military forces also raised faint hopes that such moderate states as Saudi Arabia and Jordan, freed from the threat of Palestinian reprisals, might join Egypt in the Camp David peace process. On the other hand, there was a grave danger that radicalized remnants of the P.L.O. might launch a new wave of international terror. If the situation in Lebanon flared out of control, moderate Arab states...