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...reconnaissance planes over central Lebanon. Said a U.S. diplomat: "They have begun to realize that the righting in the Chouf is an avenue for Palestinian infiltration." At the same time, some Israeli military commanders have recently expressed concern that if the U.S. is now hopelessly involved in the Lebanese morass, Israel is to a large extent at fault. As a result, the Israelis may be prepared to help the U.S. in its efforts to help prop up the Gemayel government. Last week the Israeli government warned Lebanese Druze leaders that it would not stand idly by if the Druze...
...murders was now below 200 a month, down from an average of 500 a month in 1981. Said a State Department official: "That is still a hell of a lot of killing. It is not an entirely positive picture, but a defensible one." In El Salvador's political morass, expectations remain modest...
...pounding economic hangover America is suffering from didn't come about over night and there is no single, instant cure" Reagan said He said. "there's plenty of blame to go around." for the economic morass, but claimed none for himself or his economic program...
BEYOND THE APATHY and terror of China, however, Butterfield tries to show a little of what everyday life is like--the struggle to get by in the morass of tight control, endless bureaucracy, mania for secrecy, and inefficient economic planning. The key here, he reiterates, is guan-xi, or connections. Tying together China's millions are invisible threads of relation between friends and acquaintances. "It's who you know. . .if you do something for him...then he'll do something..."--this sort of backdoor agreement is the lifeblood of the system, and the real avenue for getting things done...
...execute a religious leader of Shariatmadari's stature. His downfall, however, was seen as another victory for the religious hardliners. Under the constitution, the successor for the role faqih, or supreme theologian, must be chosen before Khomeini dies. But the process has bogged down in a morass of clerical rivalries. At the time the alleged plot was revealed, some of the more radical clergy were trying to limit the powers of the senior, conservative grand ayatullahs like Shariatmadari...