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...part, Begin was angry because he had assumed that the U.S. could be counted on to continue to pay lip service to the stalled autonomy talks, as defined and delimited by Israel. That would have enabled the Begin government to continue freely to go its way in building more Jewish settlements in the occupied territories and, eventually, to incorporate them into Israel. The U.S. had never so interpreted the Camp David accords, and Reagan's plan more explicitly and forcefully than ever before showed the U.S. disapproval of Begin's thrust...
...British have responded with a typically still upper lip. If Her Majesty's forces could travel more than 8,000 miles to fight in the cold of an Antarctic winter, the citizenry felt it could withstand a four-hour highway trip home in a moving parking lot, or bunking down overnight in the office with a sleeping...
Such Blimpish prejudice is galling, especially to those who, regarding themselves as tough-minded and not fainthearted, will see these books as further evidence that war is too devilishly attractive to be left to the generals. Hackett's lip-smacking language ("seek and destroy armor, shortened into the not infelicitous little acronym SADARM") can make the military mind seem demented. But civilian harrumphing is no more useful than the military kind, and reading Hackett's prickly books goads the reader to ask: How can the human race evolve beyond the savagery of tribalistic nationalism? -By John Skow...
...conjecture and perceptions, as if they were facts, may be stimulating in a lecture hall but is unsatisfying in a book. His proposal to promote conservative virtues with conferences and public relations campaigns, as if values were so many hamburgers, is simply materialism as usual. The spirit gets only lip service, which is no way to build lasting confidence. Investors in The Coming Boom should be careful. At times like these, one can never be too thin or too diversified...
They are not laughing so much at Bob Dole these days. It is not because Capitol Hill's lip-with-a-quip has lost his sense of humor. His wit is as irrepressible as ever. As he deftly shaped and pushed through the Senate a loophole-closing tax bill last week, the Kansas Republican eased tense moments with one-liners, delivered with his usual boyish grin, a bob of the head and a self-deprecating chuckle. When Republican Senator John Chafee of Rhode Island protested that he could not go along with Dole's key proposal to withhold...