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...tactic would probably lead to the partition of Lebanon, with Israel occupying the south and the Syrians remaining embedded in parts of the north and east. The Begin government may eventually take that step, but for the moment it is fighting off all opposition efforts to bring about a partial withdrawal, arguing that this could only make the Syrians more intransigent. Says Defense Minister Moshe Arens: "If the Syrians reach the conclusion that Israel may withdraw unilaterally, then they will certainly not leave Lebanon...
...subordinates has violated a person's human rights or the law. What I can guarantee is that there were no orders supporting this. I am a Christian. I have five children. I love them. I cannot disregard human rights. I do condemn human-rights organizations that are partial. They exploit the good will of a lot of people for their own aims...
...junior high school, Sally had become good enough in tennis to achieve national ranking. She also won a partial scholarship to Westlake, a girls' private school in Los Angeles. There, largely through the inspiration of a physiology teacher from U.C.L.A., she caught the science bug; she pursued that interest in college, first at Swarthmore, then at Stanford, to which she switched in her sophomore year. After two solid years of science and math, she turned to the humanities ("I needed a break from the equations") and fell in love with Shakespeare. In 1973 she graduated with...
...Five Harvard specialists on nuclear weapons policy published a book supporting a partial nuclear freeze, backing deployment of new NATO missiles in Europe and opposing the B1-bomber but it reached no conclusion on the proposed MX. The study, "Living With Nuclear Weapons" culminated a year long projecting that began the previous June when President Bok announced at Commencement that the University should help to educate the public by providing an objective report on nuclear issues...
...Syrian jet fired an air-to-air missile at an Israeli reconnaissance plane over the Bekaa Valley, but the Israeli pilot successfully eluded it. Then, when the Syrians announced that they would stage large-scale maneuvers in the Bekaa, Israel placed its armed forces on alert and began a partial mobilization of reserves...