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...Israeli Premier Menachem Begin was prepared to take that chance. He opposed the sale of modern American weaponry to the Saudis, but he was even more concerned that a package deal would set a pattern for equating U.S. aid to Israel with similar aid to Arab countries. "This would tend to weaken our special relationship," said one Israeli official, "and strengthen Arab relations with America, and that is not in Israel's interest." Dayan stopped short of saying publicly that Israel would rather give up the planes it stood to gain than see the whole package go through...
...since the actual kidnaping itself, more than a month earlier, had Italy endured a week of such agony and torment. Was former Premier and Christian Democratic Leader Aldo Moro dead? Or was he alive-perhaps only briefly reprieved from the death sentence that his captors claim to have passed down on him? While police and soldiers continued to search cars at roadblocks across the country, the government threw thousands of specialized troops into a fruitless search for his body. Then, after receiving the second communiqué-as well as a new letter from Moro pleading for his life-Premier Giulio...
...congress came just a year after the party had been legalized by the government of Premier Adolfo Suárez González and a scant ten months after it won a disappointing 9% of the popular vote in general elections. The focal point of the five-day meeting, called "a Communist debate for democracy and socialism," was Carrillo's proposal to drop the party's "Leninist" label in favor of "Marxist, democratic and revolutionary." Even prior to the congress, the proposal, which is known as Thesis XV, had upset several provincial and regional party conferences. The furor...
According to the Soviet news agency Tass, the plane entered Soviet airspace northeast of Murmansk and was intercepted by Soviet fighters from the area's anti-aircraft defense system. For two hours, said Tass, the airliner ignored their orders to land. Premier Aleksei Kosygin was quoted as saying that the Korean jet took "evasive action" instead, in a vain attempt to get away. Finally, reported Tass, the plane came down and landed on a frozen lake near the town of Kem in the Karelian republic. Two passengers were killed and 13 injured, Kosygin told the U.S. embassy in Moscow...
...evil past and a skittish future gusted around together. Israeli Premier Menachem Begin was due in the U.S. to raise money. What he needed more than that was moral capital to replace what his government has lost in recent months among American Jews and gentiles alike. Television's Holocaust may have done something to restore that fund of good will toward Israel. The past, Israel's raison d'être and validation, the pedigree of its suffering, came crowding back in the series' deadly lists: Kristallnacht, Eichmann, Himmler, Babi Yar, Sobibor, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz-or, rather, television...