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...Washington. This is regrettable: the perpetuation of this attitude is and will continue to be fatal for the U.S. and for the whole continent. It is hardly necessary to recall the case of Fidel Castro, whom Washington pushed toward Moscow (or to whom, at least, the U.S. gave the pretext for falling into Soviet arms). Without firing a shot, the Soviet Union obtained what Napoleon III in the 19th century and Wilhelm II in the 20th could not: a political and military base in the Americas...
THATS HOW I'll remember this fall--the year football died. No good reasons now to blow off Sundays no pretext for beers at dinner Monday night, drunk in anxious anticipation. No reason to read Sports Monday, unless you count the results from the Australian grass court tennis circuit. The recession has spread to organized crime and the bookies must be hurting. Yeah, there's still college football, but I'll shoot the cap off a bottle of beer with 22 to 50 yards blindfolded before I pick four college games correctly...
...into Lebanon and laid siege to Beirut. Next Israel pledged not to occupy West Beirut if U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib could arrange an evacuation of the P.L.O. fighters holed up there; after the assassination of Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel, the Israelis went into West Beirut on the pretext of preventing disorder. Finally, Americans charged that Ambassador to Washington Moshe Arens assured them on Begin's behalf that the Israelis would seize only "a few" strategic points in West Beirut. Instead, they took over the whole Muslim section of the city and then arranged for Christian militiamen...
...warheads for the next generation of U.S. missiles. Apparently Reagan believes those tests are essential, even if for political reasons he is unwilling to say so. As for the Soviets, the official news agency TASS commented that Reagan's stated dissatisfaction with verification was "no more than a pretext for sabotaging the [test-ban] talks...
...Goukouni asked Gaddafi to withdraw his forces in favor of a three-nation peacekeeping contingent sent by the Organization of African Unity. Gaddafi assented, apparently because he will begin a one-year stint as chairman of the O.A.U. in August and did not wish to give his peers any pretext to boycott his anointment...