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Fighting also broke out between Christian militiamen and the Lebanese Army near the port city of Sidon. By midweek, hundreds of Muslim residents of predominantly Christian villages had fled to Sidon. In the Beirut area, Islamic fundamentalists kidnaped a French diplomat, and two other employees of the French embassy were presumed to have been abducted, bringing to six the number of Westerners who have disappeared in the capital in the past two weeks. A telephone caller to Western news agencies in Beirut claimed that the radical group Islamic Holy War was holding the three...
...beyond his means, and that questions still lingered about his role in an alleged cover-up by a former client, Southland Corp., convicted of criminal conspiracy. Fedders acknowledged seven "regrettable episodes" of wife abuse and publicly expressed remorse. But that was not enough to satisfy the White House. At midweek, after 3 1/2 eventful years at the SEC, Fedders stepped down. Said he: "The glare of publicity on my private life threatens to undermine the effectiveness of the Division of Enforcement and of the commission...
...dairymen wandered through the Capitol to plead for emergency assistance. The 105-member South Dakota legislature voted itself a special $95,000 appropriation to fly to Washington en masse for a day of lobbying. In Ames, Iowa, 15,000 people, many wearing bright green FARM CRISIS ribbons, jammed a midweek protest rally at Iowa State University's Hilton Coliseum carrying signs reading FARMS, NOT ARMS and NO BILL, NO TILL. Back East, eight farm-state Senators led by Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin echoed their constituents with a demonstration of their own in Lafayette Park, across from the White House. Harkin...
Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin came to Washington last week to lobby for the military-aid portion of Israel's request (see WORLD). At a midweek meeting in the White House, he said that Israel is "taking real risks" by cutting its own defense spending to $2.6 billion, a twelve-year low. Reagan promised Rabin an additional $400 million in military assistance next year --about half of what the Israelis asked for. But Administration officials, led by Secretary of State George Shultz, want to hold off deciding on economic-assistance levels until Prime Minister Peres proves he is serious about...
...binge continued at midweek when the Dow Jones index jumped an additional 15.23 points, to 1274.73. Suddenly the record of 1287.20, set Nov. 29, 1983, seemed within easy reach, and predictions of a new peak were popping up all over Wall Street. At week's end, though, the Dow closed...