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...startling recovery of Begin and his Likud coalition was due in part to Labor's overconfidence and failure to mount an aggressive early offensive. The departure from Begin's Cabinet of such prickly individualists as Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan, Defense Minister Ezer Weizman and Finance Minister Yigal Hurvitz helped to give the coalition the illusion of unity, even if some critics saw it more properly as a vacuum. Newly appointed Finance Minister Yoram Aridor had added an undeniably popular move by reducing excise taxes and import duties on luxury items like color television sets and autos. The "Aridor...
...shared his distrust of Arabs. Two weeks ago, at a festival in Jerusalem's Sacher Park attended by some 50,000 North African Jews, Begin so charmed his audience that bodyguards had to protect the frail candidate from his listeners' affection. Later, when Peres tried to mount the same podium, he was greeted with a shower of tomatoes and oranges thrown by jeering young men and was forced to retreat from the rostrum without uttering a word. Labor charged angrily that the Likud had orchestrated the demonstration...
...equally clear that some sort of income tax cut is essential, no matter how much it costs at the start. The economy is now groaning under the heaviest peacetime tax burden in history, and a return to sustained growth seems impossible if the burden continues to mount...
...dozens of young Hollywood moviemakers, happiness is being paid to mount elaborate tributes to the guilty pleasures of their youth. Horror comic books, low-budget melodramas, early rock 'n' roll-the trinity of '50s trash -have received the pop-cultural imprimatur from canny directors and writers who see their task as dynamiting the citadel of middle-class tastefulness. Energy is the password, anarchy the politics...
...Billyball, it was still leaving opponents faked out of their flannels. On opening day, the A's choked off a Minnesota Twins rally with the ultimate schoolyard sucker-play-the old hidden-ball trick. Martin's merry men helped mount the season's first major brawl, a bench-emptier with Seattle during Oakland's record-setting eleventh win. There is even a shortstop, Mack "Shooty" Babitt, who sprints to first base when he draws a walk and, occasionally, slides...