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...midweek the Israeli position seemed to soften. Emerging from a 90-min. meeting with Secretary of State Haig, Moshe Arens, leader of a parliamentary delegation sent to Washington by Prime Minister Menachem Begin to talk about rising Israeli concerns, had some unexpectedly encouraging words about the Fahd plan. Arens declared that the Saudis had gone "a little way beyond the kind of statements they have made in the past." Coming from an Israeli hardliner, a close Begin associate and Israel's next Ambassador to Washington, that remark stirred speculation that the Israelis might consider at least some...
Last week Treasury Secretary Regan also went after Stockman. Said he: "I feel as if I am being pushed and pulled. I am going to have to start running this operation from my gut." After a midweek strategy session with aides, Regan decided to picture the Budget Director as pursuing a flawed policy that is playing into the hands of the Democrats. Regan's argument is that by allowing the Congress to consider tax increases as an alternative to further budget cuts, Stockman is actually putting the Administration's entire program in jeopardy...
...midweek, the White House decided to try to set the record straight on what the President had meant. While not flatly reiterating the point that the U.S. and its NATO allies could try to stem a Soviet conventional attack on Europe by the use of tactical nuclear weapons, Reagan did say, "Our strategy remains one of flexible response: maintaining an assured military capability to deter the use of force, conventional or nuclear, by the Warsaw Pact, at the lowest possible level." Reagan went on to say: "In a nuclear war, all mankind would lose." And he warned the Soviets that...
...week of bad news, the Ayatullah's government hoped to recoup, psychologically at least, by claiming a massive turnout in the country's third presidential election. Though results will not be official until midweek, it was a foregone conclusion that the Islamic republic's third President would be the clerics' approved candidate: Hojjatoleslam Ali Khamene'i, 42, a Majlis (parliament) representative still partly paralyzed from the explosion of a Mujahedin-planted bomb last June...
Israel's Ambassador to Washington, Ephraim Evron, managed to quiet the fears of most of the 34 Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations to whom he talked in New York City at midweek, but many prominent American Jews remained troubled. California Industrialist Max Palevsky called the Beirut raid "appalling,", and added, "Begin's terrorism is as bad as that of the P.L.O. We just can't tolerate that kind of behavior from anybody." Said Meyer Berger, a Pittsburgh businessman and a member of the national board of the American Jewish Committee: "Never has the anti-Begin sentiment...