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...Robert Slater, who interviewed former Defense Minister Ezer Weizman and former Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan. Slater found that the fortunes of Israeli leaders are as unpredictable as the country. Says he: "Israeli politics is like the proverbial seesaw: it goes up one month and descends the next." Correspondent Marlin Levin, who has covered Israel off and on since 1948, spoke with a cross section of citizens - from mothers to officeworkers to university professors - to assess the national mood. "When I first came here as a correspondent for the United Press, life went on under continual shelling and sniping as Israelis...
Reported by David Aikman and Marlin Levin/Jerusalem...
...still wonder whether John Kennedy would have been so agreeable when the Berlin Wall went up in 1961 if he had not been cruising on the yacht Marlin in Cape Cod waters. We also can ask ourselves if today's history might have been different had Carter been in the White House rather than aboard the Delta Queen churning down the Mississippi River when the Government began to get alarmed about the Soviet combat brigade in Cuba. In the Oval Office men seem to pause a second or two longer in their deliberations. If Carter had muted U.S. indignation...
...Stalin, whom he dismissed as a "gray, colorless mediocrity." In the early 1930s, his letters show, Trotsky believed he would soon be restored to power in Moscow. Trotsky's secretary in the years of exile, Frenchman Jean van Heijenoort, who catalogued the letters at Harvard, told TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin that only Hitler's rise and the destruction of the German Communist Party in 1933 shattered Trotsky's hopes...
Dave Waters led off the Cornell first with a single and advanced to third on a picture hit-run play with Chico "I'm not obnoxious, just spirited" Bengochea. Both scored when Gary Kaczor and Marlin McPhail followed with singles...