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There can be no quarrel about the acting. De Niro, Walken, John Savage, as an other Clairton pal who goes to war, and Meryl Streep, as a woman left behind, are all top actors in extraordinary form...
...interpretation of Communism conforming to the teaching of Islam?" Publicly the Saudi leaders are keeping their cool; privately they are enraged at the Egyptian attacks. "When Sadat dies," sneers a Saudi businessman, "the Egyptian people will dig up his bones and piss on them." At the root of the quarrel is Sadat's bitterness at the Saudis for failing to support the Camp David accords. With Saudi help, Sadat believes, at least one or two other moderate Arab states could be enticed into joining or supporting the peace process, and that in turn could eventually lead to a wider...
...character. Manners can be quite serious; the survival of the tribe always depends upon a kind of cooperative forbearance, which is the essence of manners. It is possible that the best manners have never prevented a man from being either an ass or a murderer. But Tish Baldrige would quarrel with that reading: to her, manners are a paradigmatic system of intelligent kindness. She would extrapolate: not giving offense in the minor transactions of life is fair training for avoiding more serious affronts, such as bullying, homicide and unprovoked warfare. Those awful things, Tish would say, are simply not done...
Meanwhile, domestic political considerations prompted Carter to paper over his quarrel with Begin about the expansion of West Bank settlements. On the day the Premier was in New York to receive his award, Carter was there also, campaigning for Democratic Governor Hugh Carey. At first the White House said coldly that the two leaders had no plans to meet. Belatedly considering the impact of such a snub on the city's Jewish voters, the White House hastily scheduled a 20-minute session with Begin and his aides...
...themselves. With Egypt committed to a peace agreement with Israel, the Iraqis invited the Syrians to join in forming a united front to create a plausible new military threat to Israel. Thus, last week, the two Arab Presidents signed a "charter for joint national action," thereby ending their long quarrel...