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...week was a nine-ring circus of death and despair. After Sunday's raid came an intensive artillery barrage by Syrian-backed Druze militiamen, resulting in the death of eight U.S. Marines near Beirut International Airport. In Beirut itself, a car bomb exploded in a crowded street, killing 14 people. Nobody was apprehended, and as usual, the list of suspects was endless. Next day a terrorist bomb exploded on a crowded bus in Jerusalem, killing five Israelis and wounding 45 others. For this senseless slaughter, two warring branches of the Palestine Liberation Organization, including the mainstream group led by Chairman...
...signaled Syria that it could not continue to attack American reconnaissance flights and get away with it. Critics in Congress and the press, however, wondered aloud whether the attack had not been a failure (see box). Though the Reagan Administration was correct in its assertion that the raid had silenced the Syrian antiaircraft batteries, there was no indication of how long they would remain silent. In any event, the mission's successes were obscured by the criticism that followed. The Syrians were jubilant at the downing of the U.S. planes, and other Arab nations considered it at least a minor...
...eyes. Once again the Arab world demonstrated the validity of an ancient proverb: "I and my brother against my cousin. But I, my brother and my cousin against the outsider." Syria is vastly unpopular within the Arab fold, but last week one Arab state after another condemned the U.S. raid. Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister, Prince Saud al Faisal, expressed his government's "deep concern," while Kuwait railed against the "flagrant aggression." Even Arafat, who has been practically driven into the sea by Syrian-supported P.L.O. rebels, issued a statement backing Syria against the U.S. "I fully support the Syrian...
Privately, the governments of Britain, France and Italy had reservations about the Navy air raid. They were particularly upset that they had received virtually no advance notice that the attack would take place. The British acknowledged publicly that the U.S. had an "inherent right of self-defense," but they were angry about what one official described as Ronald Reagan's "illadvised, counterproductive and downright dangerous" escalation of the conflict. The British disagree with the U.S. perception of Syria as a Soviet satellite and are concerned that Washington will seek to use Israel as "America's Cuba." Similarly, the French government...
...normal times it has served him well in his career as dresser and dogsbody to the actor-manager-spoken of only as "Sir"-whose little Shakespearean company is touring the English provinces. The trouble is, the times are out of joint. World War II's air-raid sirens have a way of going off in the middle of the old boy's soliloquies. Worse, the years have taken their toll. As Sir says, anticipating his 227th performance of King Lear, "No one takes you through it; you are put through it, night after night." Simply stated, the combined...