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...months ago, the Soviet Union was no more than an irrelevant bystander in the Middle East poker game. But since then, Moscow has anted up with a vengeance by resupplying Syria with large quantities of highly sophisticated weapons. The Soviet aim has been not merely to replace equipment lost when Syria tried to blunt Israel's invasion of Lebanon last June, but to increase Soviet influence in the region by offering the regime of Syrian President Hafez Assad more and better materiel than he had before. Moscow, moreover, has added a new dimension to its involvement in Syria...
...transformed Eleni's simple life, and bought out in her family a crafty brutality needed for survival. When the guerrillas wanted to take her eldest daughter Olga as a soldier, Eleni seared the girl's foot with boiling water and a glowing poker so that she could not go. A male cousin of Eleni's escaped being drafted by lacerating his neck with nettles and painting his throat every morning with diluted hydrochloric acid...
...pressures have killed off one family institution, a weekly low-stakes card game with a group of friends known as the Friday Night Poker Society that frequently met in a game room dubbed Lido's Lounge. lacocca does still find time to indulge a predilection for preparing his own Italian sauces. During a father-and-daughter European trip, he even induced an Italian hotel-owning friend in Modena to let him spend several hours observing the kitchen chef. Says he: "I cook on weekends mostly. Mary says it's O.K. as long as I have three guys follow along behind...
...like a good poker player, Glenn is careful not to overplay his hand...
When are we going to quit playing games and get down to settling the arms race? Regardless of what either side thinks, no one will come out the winner. This is not poker, it is a matter of survival...