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...blamed for "losing Lebanon." As a result, Congress may seek a compromise. Among the proposals: stationing the troops on ships offshore and ferrying them to the mainland for patrols; calling for the accelerated withdrawal of the Marines, but without setting a deadline that would encourage the Syrians to outwait the U.S.; and replacing the U.S. troops with a United Nations peace-keeping force (a plan the Soviets would surely veto...
...Smiley's People (1980), with Karla crossing over from East Berlin into Western arms. Le Carré's emphasis throughout the Smiley sagas was on the abstract detachment of his hero, his intellectual moves in a global game of chess. Smiley and Karla had the time to outwait and outthink each other. What little bloodshed both could cause was accidental, a messy byproduct of otherwise elegant planning. The Middle East, as it is and as Le Carré portrays it, offers no such leisure. The distance between theory and the front lines is a missed step, an incautious...
...Part of the U.S. strategy is to avoid polemics with Israel, and for this Secretary of State George Shultz, self-effacing and temperate, is well suited. He too turned up on a Face the Nation show. Fending off the loaded and provocative questions of interviewers, Shultz blandly proposed to outwait Begin's rejection, confident in the end that the American proposals were the surest guarantor of peace. Not flashy, but effective...
...arouse ire and indignation at every turn, and virtually every move has precipitated a battle with city politicians. Harvard has won almost every one of those battles; since its founding, the University has been protected by statute and tradition from city regulation, and while it has occasionally had to outwait angry residents, it has rarely bent to their demands...
...University has systematically denied the complaints over the years and for the most part tenants have been ineffective in pressing their claims. "They are able to outwait us." one tenant says...