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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...
...also two out in the fourth inning, Lemon pulled Starting Pitcher Tommy John from a 1 -1 game for Pinch Hitter Bobby Murcer. "I just wanted some runs," sighed Lemon, the bulb of his nose dimming out the way a third of the Yankee Stadium lights had for 9 min. in the third inning. Murcer flied out, and Reliever George Frazier came on. "Also, I thought Frazier's luck was due to change...
...were unseemly. "I'm a closet exerciser," he says, "but "I'm seriously thinking about coming out." Senior Reporter-Researcher Sue Raffety resumed a running program she had stopped some years ago, and recently completed a 13.1-mile half-marathon in an eminently respectable 1 hr. 53 min. Raffety also swims a mile every morning before work. "Swimming and running," she says, are my total tranquilizer." Senior Editor Timothy Foote, who edited the cover, is a fitness veteran who started 20 years ago with the Royal Canadian Air Force routine, and now runs regularly, though briefly. Says...
...greatest burden on passengers thus far has been an increase in the number and length of flight delays caused by the strike. During the first three weeks of October, takeoff waits of more than 30 min. occurred on 649 flights, a tenfold increase over the same period a year...
...first meeting with Westerners since assuming the party leadership, Jaruzelski promised resolute action during a 45-min. discussion with a group of TIME editors and businessmen. Dressed in an olive-drab uniform, and wearing the dark-tinted glasses he needs because of a chronic eye inflammation, Jaruzelski joked briefly about the fact that he was First Secretary of the party, Premier, Defense Minister and general of the army, but received "only one salary-and much smaller than that of the President...