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Every war has its innocent victims. Any attempt to redress such inequities a generation later is beyond the realm of possibility...
Beyond the realm of scenarios and strategies, there is a more amorphous but still important respect in which Israel is doing a disservice both to itself and to its American defenders. Israel sometimes seems to have taken on the visage and tone of a rather nasty and bitter nation, even a violent one. There was something strutting and heartless about the way the Begin government celebrated its gratuitously vengeful bombing attack on Beirut, in which about 300 were killed. It would be unreasonable to expect official contrition. But Israel in the past has managed to convey more sorrow than anger...
That may not go far among Great Britain's almost 3 million unemployed, but it enhances the monarchy and sustains every monarchist in the realm. Says Robert Lacey, author of Majesty, a study of Elizabeth II and the House of Windsor: "The reason the monarchy survives in the 1980s is that, through a combination of luck and also good training, the House of Windsor has continued to produce persons who mirror the national virtues." Adds Politics Professor Richard Rose of Scotland's University of Strathclyde: "There are those who are positive about the monarchy, and those...
...realm of gifts, indeed, where the royal wedding began to look less like a wide-screen spectacular and more like the world's most deluxe television quiz show. Without undue straining, the voice of a master of ceremonies comes filtering through the imagination, asking the traditional question-"Johnny, tell us what's in the jackpot for this wonderful couple"-and getting, from an agitated announcer who sounds like a tobacco auctioneer just graduated from broadcast school, a far from conventional reply...
...occasion was the New Zealand Rugby Football Union's invitation to the South African Springboks, a world class team whose predominantly white composition (just one black) all too clearly reflects its government's views on racial segregation-and inflames controversy far beyond the realm of sport. Demonstrating against South Africa's policy of apartheid, New Zealanders last week staged their worst civil disorders since the Viet Nam War. A crowd of 3,000 tried to storm Parliament, while others occupied bridges, fought with police, and dumped broken glass on playing fields...