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...more, of course. But his little box seems to symbolize a gentle, almost self-effacing approach that has helped Shultz settle into his role as the pointman of American foreign policy. In a methodical and low-keyed way, he has spent his first six weeks in office putting mortar between the crumbling bricks of U.S. policy. Outside thinkers have been summoned to help assess basic American goals around the globe. Seminars with the President and his aides have been instituted so that decision making will be less haphazard. And for the moment, at least, a renewed partnership between the State...
...land of the museum crossing, a group of exhausted Israeli soldiers were sprawled in sleep on the patio of an elegant apartment house. Others wearing helmets and flak jackets waited patiently in a few lined-up tanks and armored personnel carriers. Machine gun, tank and mortar fire were crashing back and forth down the Avenue Abdallah Yafi. Wandering pensively behind two tanks, Bruce, 23, a Brooklyn-born yeshiva student, was clutching a Hebrew Bible in one hand and a rifle in the other. "I back the government 100%," he said. "We've suffered so much from the terrorists...
Nonetheless, Palestinian forces doggedly continued to challenge the Israeli occupation troops. Some 300 P.L.O. holdouts barricaded themselves inside the Ein el Hilweh refugee camp near Sidon and pelted Israeli positions with mortar fire before being flushed out. Other P.L.O. guerrillas, however, were said to have found refuge in the hills. Admitted an Israeli officer: "The territory has not yet been sterilized...
...most popular areas of giving thus far have been for endowing professorships and for student aid, Putnam said. Money for the "bricks and mortar" of house renovations have been lagging, he said, but predicted that funds for those purposes would increase as the College got further along in the renovation projects this summer
...late. Similarly, the Sea Skua and Exocet antiship missiles are almost impossible to evade. A would-be victim can use electronic countermeasures like radar jamming to confuse the attacking missile's guidance system. A ship can also launch clouds of metallic strips from a special mortar to decoy its radar. Perhaps the best defenses are computer-guided antiaircraft guns and supersophisticated antimissile missiles...