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...decision was a victory for Peres, who has long been critical of the frustrating and costly occupation of Lebanese territory that began with Israel's invasion of its neighbor on June 6, 1982. No longer will Israel be, as he put it, "the policeman of Lebanon," a role that has led to 610 Israeli deaths in the past 31 months and cost the economically strapped government / about $600,000 a day. The move was a popular one: in some recent polls, nine out of ten Israelis have favored a withdrawal. Said Abba Eban, chairman of the Knesset's defense...
...desperation," concluded the New York Post. (It should know. It put 13 reporters on the story.) He has been described as moody and unstable. He certainly was frightened. He told his sister after the shooting that he did it out of fear. "A scared individual, vulnerable and fragile," a neighbor called him. When the movie is made, Goetz will be played not by Charles Bronson but by Donald Pleasence. Or better, by Anthony Perkins...
...POOR MEXICO," the saying goes, "so far from god and so close to the United States." Coined by a Mexican president in the late 1800s, the saying remains ample evidence of the fear and mistrust Mexicans have always felt toward their northern neighbor. Not without reason: In a war largely forgotten on this side of the Rio Grande, the U.S. in 1848 seized almost half of Mexico's territory. In 1914 and 1916 we invaded Mexico again, to control a revolution whose outcome we feared...
...mailman left with two steelhead filets Newt wanted him to pass on to a neighbor miles away through the wilderness. He would be back that afternoon to drop off a fresh-killed elk another neighbor wanted Newt and Sharon to have. All along the route this day, he would be transferring gifts, books, food, goods and good wishes between these isolationists. It is a service not set down in his $20,000-a-year contract with the postal service. "Oh, I take it out in trade," Ray said. "The weather could ground me, and then I'd have to stay...
...This man is intensely private, and he keeps his professional life and his personal life completely separate," says Nathan, a professor at Harvard Medical School. "I see a lot of Derek, but I see him only as a tennis player and a neighbor...