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...Brown, who is expected to run for the U.S. Senate next year, clearly did not relish the idea of offending his environmentalist constituency. At midweek he ignored the recommendation of his own Medfly advisory committee and refused to allow aerial spraying. Brown explained that he did not want Californians "waking up in the middle of the night to those helicopters spraying the garden, the street light, the roof, the child's bicycle, the swimming pool and everything else...
Chirac assumed a statesmanlike pose and called for a "new majority." At midweek, Chirac and U.D.F. President Jean Lecanuet announced a new electoral "pact" of the center-right. Based largely on Chirac's own Reaganesque economic proposals, this joint U.D.F.-R.P.R. platform calls for tax cuts, reduced government spending, and more freedom for business. In short: the negation of everything Mitterrand stands...
...response to these attacks, and to heavy artillery duels with the Israeli-backed Christian forces under the command of Major Sa'ad Haddad, Palestine Liberation Organization Chief Yasser Arafat ordered Palestinian guerrilla forces to go on full alert. At midweek, he summoned Arab ambassadors in Beirut to describe Israel's actions in southern Lebanon as "systematic genocide against the Palestinian and Lebanese people...
...were met with some skepticism by Western analysts. Pointing to the Soviets' continuing military presence in and around Poland, a French foreign ministry official said, "The soldiers aren't there with their rifles and tanks to hunt grouse, after all." Indeed, a State Department spokesman reported at midweek that there had been "no significant change in the overall level of [military] activity" despite the official end of the maneuvers...
...claimed she was starting a hunger strike when she refused "tasteless" prison food-she has been visited by friends and lawyers bearing richer fare. Says Warden Norwood Jackson: "She is eating cookies and candy. This doesn't indicate to me that she is on a hunger strike." By midweek, Harris had volunteered to work in the library cataloguing books...