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Undeterred by Begin's apparent strength, Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres gamely retorted: "He has thrown down the gauntlet, and we shall pick it up. He wants early elections. Fine. We shall go for early elections." Labor's chances of winning them depend largely on Peres, who has lost two elections to Begin in the past five years. A former protege of Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister of Israel, Peres, 59, has worked at the core of the Labor Party for more than three decades. He was appointed director-general of the Defense Ministry...
...Glenn dines on live eels and beetles; stands buried up to his neck in dirt for five days; gets karated or garroted every five minutes. So reads the code of the Old West (in Barbarosa) and modern Japan (in The Challenge): the rite of passage has become a suicidal gauntlet. Call it machochism...
After the Viet Nam cease-fire-and the first SALT agreement-we managed to increase the defense budget by some 5%. But even this relatively modest change ran up against the lingering inhibitions of Viet Nam, compounded by Watergate. Every new weapons system had to run a gauntlet of objections: it was unnecessary because we already had an "overkill" capability; it was dangerous because it would compel offsetting Soviet moves; it would jeopardize SALT negotiations; it would weaken us because it might preclude newer and even better weapons down the road. The attainable was being blocked by a quest...
...statement ended Watergate. The culprits had obviously been discovered; the matter could now be left to judicial processes. In reality, the primary significance of the White House statement was to begin Nixon's mortal struggle with White House Counsel John Dean. Nixon was now throwing down the gauntlet by denying Dean immunity and attempting to deprive him of any hope of making a deal with the prosecutor to save his skin...
...from the outside world, they underestimated the determination of Western journalists. Dispatches and film continued to trickle out of the country, smuggled by departing tourists, sympathetic Poles and the occasional journalist whose visa had expired. The risks were high. Automobile border checks were rigorous; outgoing rail passengers ran a gauntlet of Polish and East German interrogation and baggage checks. Film, camera equipment and video cassettes were confiscated. Anyone suspected of trying to leave with written reports or pictures was threatened with jail...