Word: quarreling
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...says one of the President's senior advisers. Shultz achieved a partial success by getting the Administration to mute its retaliation against European allies who have defied the sanctions; only two companies have been hit with punitive measures so far, allowing the dispute to remain a manageable family quarrel. Once the decision was made, Shultz loyally helped coordinate actions by the Justice and Commerce departments to carry out the policy...
...mean personal quarrel between Rozelle and Al Davis, who were opposing commissioners before the National and American Football Leagues agreed to merge in 1966, has been as unseemly as the rest. Davis appears to have won his fight to relocate the Oakland Raiders in Los Angeles, though there remain one or two legal shots to be fired. Under an unusual interpretation of eminent domain, Oakland is busily trying to "nationalize" the Raiders, while Davis is hurriedly selling tickets in Los Angeles...
...Begin government would like to see a new and neutralized Lebanon emerge from the rubble: a country with no P.L.O., no Syrians, no internecine fighting and no quarrel with Israel. As Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir put it in an Israeli radio interview, "It is our wish to make peace with a Lebanese government that wants to make peace with us, and that would be capable of doing so. And this will happen as soon as it no longer faces pressure and threats from foreign elements that endanger Lebanese interests...
Secretary of State Alexander Haig and U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick long feuded over the basic question of whether and when to side with the British in the Falklands dispute. The quarrel not only is a personality clash between two stubborn, prideful antagonists, but it reflects deep ideological splits within the Administration...
...Organization in Geneva. Their demands include a 20% pay increase, more generous child allowances and pensions and a 36-hour week. The workers hope the protest will prod the Pope, the microstate's absolute monarch, into resolving the dispute himself. If the Pope can settle an Italian labor quarrel, he will surely add to his reputation as a diplomatic miracle worker...