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...weapons and bases, a stance the U.S. claims would destroy NATO, continues to cut deeply into the party's support. So have fierce intraparty ideological rivalries between moderates and the militant left. The quarreling allowed the Conservatives to jump into a lead of between 10 and 15 points. A midweek poll gave the Tories 44% support, the Labor Party 30% and the Alliance...
...face of Slotnick's guerrilla tactics, Assistant District Attorney Gregory Waples pressed on with the quiet demeanor of a man who believes that the facts and Goetz's own words will lead inescapably to a conviction. At midweek Waples played a two-hour tape recording made by the detectives who questioned Goetz when he surrendered to them in Concord, N.H. In it, Goetz said the four "wanted to play with me, like a cat plays with a mouse" -- before he assumed a shooter's stance and methodically emptied his pistol at his tormentors. "I know this sounds horrible," he said...
...prevent demonstrations, some 100,000 policemen went on alert, combing 52 colleges and universities and detaining more than 4,000 people. Officials seized leaflets and firebombs. Nonetheless, by midweek the predictions of political troubles came true. Throughout the country, 13,000 students mounted rallies denouncing Chun. At several campuses, youths battled police with homemade bombs and stones. Such unrest was not part of the President's Olympic program...
...midweek, however, as pressure from overseas intensified, the Jerusalem government realized it would have to act. On Wednesday, after meeting for almost eight hours, the ten-member "inner Cabinet" concluded that an independent investigatory committee would have to be appointed, if only to appease the U.S. Accordingly, Shamir at first turned to Moshe Landau, a former Supreme Court justice, to head a two-member panel to look into the Pollard case. Landau promptly declined the invitation, explaining that the committee as constituted would not have the legal authority to do its job properly...
...much further is this President prepared to go in shouldering blame and cleaning house? A vital clue will come in the televised speech to the nation that he is preparing to deliver at midweek. It shapes up as probably the most important speech of his presidency. At week's end, though, it was still undecided what Reagan would say. Virtually every one of the President's current advisers is arguing that Reagan should forthrightly accept the blame for Iranscam that the Tower commission pinned squarely on him, confess blunders on his own part as well as by his staff...