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...underground paramilitary youth organization defending Jewish settlements. During a military career that spanned nearly three decades he earned a reputation both as a swashbuckling, Patton-like commander who sometimes overstepped his orders and as a brilliant tactician. In 1953 he created an international incident by leading an Israeli raid into Jordan that left 69 Jordanian civilians dead. Miffed because he had been passed over for the post of chief of staff, he resigned from the army in 1973 to seek a political career. When his reserve unit was activated during the October 1973 war, he saved the day for Israel...
...raid drew strong international condemnation-except from the U.S. France, Britain, West Germany and Canada, who with the U.S. have taken a leading role in trying to forge a United Nations-sponsored Namibia settlement, called for an immediate South African withdrawal. The U.S., for its part, issued a statement saying that the new South African action "must be understood in its full context" of the struggle against SWAPO and emphasized the "urgent" need for a Namibia solution. U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim cut short a vacation in his native Austria and hastily returned to New York to prepare...
...toil from dawn until well past dark sewing pants, shirts and blouses for as little as 8? apiece. The rooms are often dimly lit and poorly ventilated. In many cases, huge rolls of cloth block fire exits. The workers range from the young to the very old. In a raid on Chinatown sweatshops last spring, federal investigators found one 90-year-old woman, who was working for $1 an hour, and an eleven-year-old child...
...unable to exact from Israel even a renewed promise to abide by the contractual restrictions on the offensive use of U.S. weapons. An original embargo of four F-16 jets had been ordered immediately following Israel's raid against Iraq on June 7, mainly out of concern that the attack would jeopardize U.S.-Arab relations. When Arab reaction proved to be less critical than expected, the only question for the Administration was when to end the embargo. Nonetheless, Washington hoped to gain some concessions from Israel in return for lifting it-perhaps even an end to Jerusalem...
...early July State Department Counselor Robert McFarlane was dispatched to see what the Israelis might offer. He came away with only a joint statement saying that "misunderstandings" about the raid had been "clarified." Then, just as the U.S. was about to release the F-16s anyway, the Israelis bombed Beirut. The shipment was held up once again and eventually 14 F-16s and two F-15s were included in the embargo. The hold lasted long enough to avoid embarrassing Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, who visited Washington in early August...