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Since Israel became a country in 1948, the U.S. has given $14.9 billion in military aid. About a third has been in the form of outright grants, the rest in loans that must be repaid within 30 years. Israel's formidable fighting machine includes an air force in which fully 85% of the 602 combat aircraft are American-built. Among them: 40 F-15 Eagles, 75 F-16 Fighting Falcons, 138 F-4E Phantoms and 246 A-4 Skyhawks...
Their festering disillusion erupted last week into outright revolt. The immediate cause was the ongoing congressional fight over a proposed bill, strongly supported by the President, to raise taxes by $98.9 billion over the next three years. The battle lines were drawn with special clarity on Wednesday, first at a series of no-nonsense meetings at the White House between Reagan and G.O.P. congressional leaders, and then at an evening strategy session attended by a disparate array of discontented conservatives...
...that the impasse, which one White House expert says "has caused the most disruption in the alliance in 20 years," has been resolved. The Reagan Administration insisted again last week that it is committed to the sanctions. But France and Italy have rejected the embargo outright, and West Germany and Britain announced that they would encourage companies to honor construction contracts signed with Moscow...
...explain where it came from. A chemical engineer from New York knows how the one-night stand can go these days: on a business trip a beautiful woman invited him up to her room. He went, but was troubled by thoughts of herpes sores. He asked the lady outright. Her denial was not enough; he was impotent. "I wanted to go through with it," he confided to a friend, "but my body wouldn't respond...
...abandoned children wander, uncomprehending and terrified; thick black smoke distorts once beautiful skylines. Such are the results of Israel's invasion of Lebanon, a foray that has left the Jewish state seemingly, more isolated than ever before. For the first time since its creation in 1948, Israel is the outright initiator of a conflict designed to garner security, not survival...