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When Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres condemned the raid, arguing that quiet diplomacy might have obviated the need for it, Begin lashed out with a vengeance. Said he: "I hate, with a mortal hatred, the word 'treason.' But there is something of sabotage in the statements of Israel's Labor Party." Then Begin went on to approvingly quote a Knesset ally who said that Peres "had stuck a knife in the nation's back...
Much amusing zipping and zapping ensues as the three make their destructive way to the White House and takeover. They are always doing things like catching bazooka shells in their bare hands and blowing tanks out of their path with about as much breath power as an ordinary mortal uses to douse a candle. The final confrontation with Superman is a barroom brawl on a delightfully gigantic scale. Instead of heaving furniture at one another, they toss a bus back and forth. And when one of the combatants gets thrown, the trajectory is measured in city blocks. In short, there...
...must arm "moderate" Saudi Arabia because of the threat to the Middle East from the Soviet Union. No, say the Saudis, the threat is Israel, not the Soviet Union [May 4]. So the U.S. supplies the most modern advanced weapons and planes to satisfy the Saudis-even at the mortal peril of Israel...
...almost everyone is mortal and clumsy when scandal hits him on the blind side. In the past few years an interesting though not always persuasive variation has become popular with U.S. Congressmen: the alcoholic-deflective approach. Actually, it amounts to a plea of temporary insanity. Arkansas' Wilbur Mills began behaving strangely in public with an exotic dancer called the Argentine Firecracker. When he recovered himself for a moment, he told his constituents it all came from drinking champagne with foreigners. But then he landed with the Fire cracker at Washington's Tidal Basin in the middle...
...ability to "shuttle" off this 20th century mortal coil and return, flawlessly, is a landmark achievement of the human race-a forerunner of man's travel to the stars. Initiative, expertise and creativity are alive and well in America...