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Dates: during 1970-1979
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News of the attack broke in Israel just as Deputy Chief of the U.S. Mission Richard Viets delivered Anwar Sadat's reply to Premier Begin's last letter. Begin made no immediate comment about Israeli response to the terrorist attack. But at a press conference in New York before taking off for Israel, Defense Minister Weizman admitted that retaliatory air strikes in southern Lebanon were "a possibility." That, of course, has been the pattern in the past, and Israel might well seize on the provocation as an excuse to put into action a plan to knock out encampments...
...both the Saudi and the Egyptian sales past Congress, the White House has included them in a package deal with the planes for Israel. But last week, as Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman was in Washington for talks on a big new Israeli arms request, the President received a letter signed by 21 of the 37 members of the House International Relations Committee. It urged him to reconsider his determination to keep the plane package all wrapped together. Earlier, opponents of the plane deal had gained some unexpected ammunition when the White House's liaison man with the Jewish...
...great vacations start with flying Finnish," featured a fanciful headline about the invention of the sauna by a Finn who discovered that his wife "loved" being locked in a smokehouse and beaten with birch leaves. Lawyer Karen DeCrow, former president of the National Organization for Women, conceded in a letter to Finnair North American General Manager Leif Lundstrom that the airline had intended only to be funny-but added that wife beating was no laughing matter, either in Finland or the U.S. If Finnair did not drop the ad, said DeCrow, "we women will have to start our great vacations...
...specter is haunting the tens of millions of Americans who are now sitting down to figure out their income taxes for 1977. Of the 88 million people who file income tax returns, more than 2 million will eventually receive a deceptively amiable form letter from the Internal Revenue Service that reads in part: "We are examining your federal income tax return for the above year(s) and find we need additional information." Translation: these taxpayers' returns for 1977-or perhaps as far back as 1975 -will be audited. Two out of three of those chosen will be assessed higher...
...story with a straight face, so Mamet has told it with a borrowed voice. The time is 1934, the place a radio station. The play is being acted out before microphones, which means that all of its virtues are peripheral and nostalgic. A spectral voice pushes the Depression chain-letter craze; a rabble-rouser denounces capitalistic society...