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...itself to the beefing up of the Saudi F-15s. Under the impression that this would be the main part of the package, Shamir expressed only ritualistic objection. His "I'm not worried" comment was then taken by the Administration to indicate that the Israelis would have no serious quarrel with an arms sale involving AWACS...
...than Reagan predicted. The Government's index of leading economic indicators, which is supposed to portend future business trends, showed a sharp 2.7% drop in September, the biggest decline in 17 months. And, to make the situation worse, the Administration's top economic advisers have begun to quarrel among themselves over who is to blame for a policy that seems to go more wrong by the week...
...case, where he argues less for compromise than for both sides to see a new direction, he is irrefutable. The issue is energy, a Tsongas specialty for at least the last eight years, and when his statistics are flung down on the table there is little to quarrel with. America--and even more the world--is running short of traditional fuels, he says. The long-term development of inexhaustible resources is assured, but in the interim a mix of conservation and dirty energy--coal and nuclear electricity generation--are imperative, he insists. Neither right nor left has met the problem...
...army) or at the polls (where he seems invincible) but by fomenting trouble between the Muslim and Christian communities in the hope of creating national chaos. In his speech, Sadat accused both religious and political enemies of "conniving together" to exaggerate several recent incidents of unrest, including a domestic quarrel between a Muslim family and a Christian family last June that had led to three days of clashes and at least 17 deaths. The event itself was unimportant, said Sadat, but was exploited by the regime's religious opponents as well as two legal opposition groups. The national security...
...Heat-wonderful title-bears a family resemblance in plot and tone to James M. Cain's Double Indemnity: a man more ordinary than he thinks he is meets a newly rich femme fatale; sparks fly, plots hatch, a husband dies, insurance claims are debated, friendships fray, the lovers quarrel and part explosively. And though Lawrence Kasdan's film is set in today's South Florida, its characters move through an atmosphere that suggests the confluences of decor and demeanor in a 1940s film noir...