Word: refrained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...peace was essentially a race against time. For the U.S., the challenge was the one that President Reagan alluded to in his Wednesday evening press conference: how to "walk the very narrow line" between keeping the pressure on the P.L.O. to negotiate a withdrawal, and on Israel to refrain from making a devastating attack on West Beirut. To neglect the former would be to give the P.L.O. the mistaken notion that world opinion might yet save it. To neglect the latter would be to invite an Israeli bloodbath in the capital...
Director Arthur Hiller wanted a cute film. He can't resist focusing his camera on the mischievous faces of the kids at the dinner table, or the birthday cake that goes sailing into Pacino's face. The theme song emphasizes the point with its ridiculous refrain: "Comin' home to you is like comin' home to milk and cookies...
...meeting with Reagan, and in a later private talk with Haig, Begin likewise would not budge on anything. At one point, the White House put out word that the Prime Minister had pledged to refrain from a final assault on Beirut. Haig was furious because he regarded the threat of an Israeli attack as essential to induce the remnants of the P.L.O. holed up in Beirut to negotiate with Israel. The Israeli leader had, in fact, made no pledge. As the fighting continued, Clark, Weinberger and others were arguing with Reagan that Haig's soft-on-Israel approach increasingly...
...only is it sound policy to shield the Government's top official, said Powell, but under the separation-of-powers doctrine, the Judicial Branch should refrain from undue interference with the President's actions. For example, judges could slow the wheels of Executive power by providing too ready a forum for plaintiffs who ask them to scrutinize a President's day-to-day conduct. In a concurring opinion, Burger noted that Congressmen, their aides, judges and prosecutors enjoy similar immunity...
...damage to U.S. policy in the region can be made until the war is over. Much will depend on the conflict's length and severity, as well as the degree of military aid the U.S. provides Britain. Diego Uribe Vargas, former Colombian Foreign Minister, echoes a common refrain when he observes that such institutions as the O.A.S. and the Treaty of Rio have not proved to be effective instruments in the current crisis. "They are like those medicines you keep in a bottle on a shelf for a long time," he says. "When you take them, you find...