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Part of the reason for this is inexperience. Weller and second baseman Gaylord Lyman are the only seniors on the roster, while half a dozen freshmen could make the team Like his predecessor. Weller doesn't do a lot of talking "If some of the players have problems. I'd hope they'd come to me," he says...
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, unlike his predecessor Menachem Begin, is eager to demonstrate evenhandedness in opposing both Jewish and Arab terrorism. There is good reason to do so. In the past four years, fanatical Jewish activists have launched more than 40 terrorist operations against Arab and Christian homes and institutions in Israel and the West Bank. Among the more spectacular crimes: the attempted assassination of three West Bank Arab mayors in June 1980 and an assault last summer on Hebron's Islamic University in which three Arabs were killed and 33 wounded. Responsibility for the latest West Bank machine...
Such a challenge to church authority would have been unthinkable in the days of Glemp's predecessor, Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, who died in 1981. The much revered prelate had preserved, almost singlehanded, the authority of the Polish church during more than three decades of Communist rule...
Judging from Chernenko's speech, the new Soviet leader seems intent on doing just what his predecessor did?at least for the immediate future. In the area of foreign policy, Chernenko does not appear to be any more willing than Andropov to resume nuclear arms talks. Nor does he seem to be eager for an early summit meeting with Reagan. Given Chernenko's limited experience with diplomacy and defense, he will probably rely on the advice of two Politburo veterans, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Defense Minister Ustinov. Richard Thomas, director of the Center for Strategic Technology at Texas...
...current exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical drawings at New York City's Metropolitan Museum is, one need hardly point out, a must for almost anyone who is interested in either drawings or bodies. All the same, it is not the easiest of shows. Its predecessor, the Met's 1981 exhibition of his studies of landscape and water and plants (lent, like this one, from the Royal Library at Windsor Castle), was more open to the nonspecialist, if only because more people have mused on water currents or leaves than on the maxillary sinus...