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...that the U.S. supported Israel's "legitimate security interests" as well as Lebanon's "sovereignty and independence." But Washington generally favors the Lebanese position. The Reagan Administration fears that wide-ranging discussions would merely prolong the crisis in Lebanon and would prevent the U.S. from making any headway on President Reagan's Sept. 1 peace plan, which calls for a future association between Jordan and the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip...
...coup succeeded, and Afghanistan went Communist. But Mr. Brezhnev and his colleagues brushed aside the vitally important warnings that the KGB was giving them-and disaster ensued. At the outset the Politburo felt it now had a chance to make some real headway in Afghanistan. It would pour in money and advisers. Afghanistan's links with the West would be gradually severed. Afghanistan would be not only a neighboring country with whom we had good relations, like Finland, but a new member of the "Communist family...
Although this excuse would have made little headway with judges a few years ago, the example of two English cases in which sentences were reduced because of the defendants' menstrual stress inspired Santos's lawyer to use it as a legal defense. Referring to her client's complaint by its medical moniker, Pre-Menstrual Syndrome (PMS), defense attorney Stephanie Benson claimed that Santos was suffering from an extreme case of PMS when she beat her child. Santos had blacked out because of the condition, Benson asserted; she was therefore unable to feel the "criminal intent" that would make her responsible...
...Arab states to be a silent partner in the attack or at the very least an overly indulgent ally. Until the U.S. can distinguish openly between American policy and Israeli policy, and rein in some of the more expansionist tendencies of the Begin government, it cannot make real headway in improving its relations with the Arab world...
...kind of looking forward to that discussion. We have made some headway in making them realize that high interest rates were not a part of our economic program, that they were as disastrous for us as they say they are to them. I look forward to the opportunity once and for all to reveal to them that we are doing everything we can, particularly with what we have done with regard to inflation. No one can match that record...