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Syria's poor military showing has proved an acute embarrassment to the Kremlin. A high-level Soviet military mission traveled to Syria last month to assess fully the damage to Soviet-built weapons systems. In an unusual move, the official Soviet news agency TASS declared that all rumors that Soviet military equipment was inferior to the American-made arms in Israel's arsenal were "deliberately false" and a form of psychological warfare. Kremlin Spokesman Leonid Zamyatin went out of his way to explain in a television broadcast that "more than 100 Israeli tanks were knocked...
Vice President George Bush and a high-level U.S. delegation also flew into Riyadh last week. After keeping the Americans waiting for three hours, the King told them bluntly that the invasion was an outrage and that the U.S. must do everything it could to get the Israelis out of Lebanon. While not accusing Washington of direct complicity in the attack, Fahd blamed the Reagan Administration for acquiescing in the Israeli action. Still, the pragmatic Fahd was thought by some analysts to be secretly pleased at the weakening of the P.L.O. Like Iran's revolutionary fervor, the P.L.O.'s radicalism...
...official communiques summed up decisions reached at the Versailles economic summit but not the mood and spirit of the high-level talks that led to the decisions. After interviewing several participants, TIME European Correspondent Lawrence Malkin was able to reconstruct a bit of what took place at the afternoon session on Saturday, June...
...London responsibility. The gunman, Hassan Ahmed Said, 23, who was hospitalized and then turned over to the police, had at least two accomplices. The men carried two Jordanian passports one from Iraq. Their capture by Scotland Yard reportedly led to the seizure of a hit list targeting other high-level Israelis, well as a cache of guns, hand grenades and ammunition...
Both temporary faits accompli also seem borne of an objectionably cloistered decision-making process that we hope the University avoids in the future. The imminent choice of a new Corporation member offers the opportunity both to include more people in high-level Harvard decisions, and also to diversity the Corporation by adding a woman or a member of a minority group...