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Reagan opened his meeting with Shamir last Monday by protesting the civilian suffering in Lebanon. "American public opinion has a short fuse on this situation," warned the President. By raising questions about whether this use of U.S. weapons constituted "defensive action," which is a condition of arms sales to Israel, Reagan implied that the flow of military hardware could be curtailed. But the White House took a softer line in a statement it issued describing the 20-minute meeting. "The world can no longer accept a situation of constantly escalating violence." Reagan's advisers calculated that private pressure, rather...
...immediate outcry of national pain. With millions of his countrymen at the beaches and in the mountains, Italian Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini proclaimed a stringent austerity package, describing the proposals as being of "historic proportions." They were indeed, but they also contained political dynamite with an unexpectedly short fuse. Only five days after the big economic squeeze was announced, seven Socialist ministers resigned from Spadolini's 28-member Cabinet last week in a move that in effect felled his 13-month-old government, Italy's 41st since World...
Breslin attaches a long and sultry fuse to the plot's ethnic charge. There are many preliminary explosions as Teenager casually murders his way through the business day. At times, this nonchalance is carried too far: "Teenager shot Gigi in the back of the head with the gun in his left hand and Victor in the back of the head with the gun in his right hand. He fired once more into each head. He stuffed the guns into his belt and dove out of the Lincoln on the street side, so schoolyard kids would...
...Tuve noted that short-pulse radio waves reflected off the ionosphere, which provided the theoretical underpinning for radar. In 1933 he confirmed the existence of the neutron and was also able to measure the bonding forces in atomic nuclei. During World War II, he organized development of the proximity fuse for antiaircraft shells, enabling defenders to increase greatly their accuracy in combating German V-1 buzz bombs and Japanese kamikaze plane attacks...
...Healy says he is "constantly prepared to review the administration and composition of the rent board." The members face "difficult issues under hostile conditions created by the length of time that is required to complete the procedure," Healy says. "Whoever the petitioning party is, then fuse is likely to be a little short from the delay by the time they reach the board...