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...thrust and counterthrust across the embattled border, Israeli forces staged a naval raid on Jiyah, 13 miles south of Beirut, and Palestinians responded by sending yet another volley of rocket fire into the settlements of northern Israel. By that time, the 14 days of continuous fighting had become the heaviest between the Israelis and the Palestinians since the Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon in March 1978. The Palestinians and Lebanese had suffered by far the greater number of casualties: some 450 dead and 1,500 wounded, most of them in a bombing raid on Beirut, compared with six dead...
...charges. He told TIME: "If this Israeli lobby is not challenged, and if Begin is not challenged, I think the interests of the U.S. will be seriously hurt." Already, says McCloskey, the lobbying against the sale of AWACS reconnaissance planes to Saudi Arabia is "some of the heaviest I have ever seen...
...year reign. Though the resolution credited Mao for performing "indelible meritorious service in founding and building up our party," he was accused of committing "theoretical and practical mistakes concerning class struggle in a socialist society." Mao's worst errors, which caused China "the most severe setbacks and heaviest losses," came during the Cultural Revolution. The resolution stressed the innocence of the victims of Mao's mass purges, including, not surprisingly, Deng Xiaoping...
...week's end Habib arrived back in Beirut to the scream and thud of some of the heaviest shelling and artillery fire since the civil war. He needed no further reminder of the urgency of attaining a broader U.S. goal: to work out a settlement among the warring factions in Lebanon so that crises would not keep on exploding like a series of land mines. To that end, Habib has also been seeking ways to strengthen Lebanon's army, to get the Syrians to take more responsibility for disruptive left-wing activities in and around Beirut...
...lost revenue than the U.S. would gain in increased savings, at least for the first couple of years. Yet it is equally clear that some sort of income tax cut is essential, no matter how much it costs at the start. The economy is now groaning under the heaviest peacetime tax burden in history, and a return to sustained growth seems impossible if the burden continues to mount...