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...withdrawal of the Israelis from our country. After a few days, we suspected that this goal could not be reached. When the Israelis began their withdrawal (from the Chouf Mountains) without any coordination with us, bringing chaos to the areas they had occupied, we concluded that this agreement was nil. The Israelis were so insistent on getting everything they wanted that they lost the opportunity for a peaceful withdrawal. In retrospect, we all made mistakes...
...Israel does not look kindly on pressure to release prisoners. Chances are nil that this will be successful," said Lisa Anderson, assistant professor of government and a specialist in Middle Eastern politics...
...Michoacan, Mexico, and drifted north to Seattle, hoping to earn enough to start his own business back home ("upholstery or construction, senor, it would not matter"). But by 1979 ! his wife Guadelupe advised him that prospects for founding a business or even earning a living wage in Michoacan were nil, so Guillermo brought Guadelupe and their four children to join him in Seattle. Today he earns $400 a month from a boss who deducts $250 for rent on a ramshackle apartment that the boss owns. Somehow, though, Guillermo is saving money to buy a sewing machine and once more dreams...
What finds favor here is young, loud and, except in its careerism, invincibly dumb. It wants to be winsomely outrageous as a form of ingratiation. Its mood is claustrophobic because its sense of history (i.e., anything that happened before Warhol, except for kitsch surrealism) is nil...
South African operations: "Virtually nil," according to spokesman A. Newell Garden. A wholly-owned Raytheon subsidiary, Badger Co. of Cambridge, employees two Europeans who are working on a South African government plant to convert coal into synthetic oil. Raytheon has no equity interest in the company and does not have any factories there, Garden said...