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...surprised U.S. analysts by its strength, but despite the evident similarity to the events of 1980, history did not repeat itself in Gdansk last week. General Wojciech Jaruzelski, head of the military regime, made it clear from the first flicker of protest that his government would not give an inch...
...read the first section of the newspaper and try to guess who'll win the elections. The Kennedy race doesn't merit an inch of newsprint; Dukakis over Sears by three percentage points; Weicker over Moflett: Moynihan by a landslide--it's pick 'em who'll do better. Kennedy of stormin' Pat--and my burn knee says Mario "the Mensch" Cuomo will down Law "my-suspenders-are-sewn-to-my-body' Lehman. In a week or two I'll put a out a line whether the Democrats can snag a Senate majority. The Greek is nodding...
...nature. Welliver's ambition, at least in part, is to do the same with Pollock. Such landscapes are "allover" paintings, slices taken from a boundless field of pictorial incident. The apparent disorder of the view, that energetic chaos of sticks and rocks, is formalist to the last square inch...
...Sadat's time to spell out Egypt's position. He sat erect and spoke calmly, referring to a few notes. He explained that Egypt must have every inch of her land returned, with unequivocal sovereignty over it, and that other Arab nations must be treated the same. I asked...
...storm rose, Begin did not back off an inch. Scarcely two hours after the Rosh Hashanah observances ended Sunday evening, he called a Cabinet meeting that issued a statement briefly expressing "grief and regret" concerning the killings, but mainly trying to refute accusations of Israeli guilt. The statement declared that Israel was the victim of a "blood libel" and that "malicious and evil" allegations were being made against the nation. The Israeli government took out a full-page ad in several U.S. papers, including the New York Times and the Washington Post, to stress Israel's innocence. In an effort...