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...Israel as a propaganda ploy, and explicitly disavowed as a recognition of Israel by official P.L.O. spokesmen in Beirut, New York and Paris. That blow came after a stinging cable from House Speaker Tip O'Neill instructing the congressional delegation, whose trip he had routinely authorized, to refrain from making statements in his name. It was only the beginning of the Americans' troubles. Representatives Nick Rahall of West Virginia and Mary Rose Oakar of Ohio, both of Lebanese descent and both persistent critics of Israel, told the press that the damage they had seen in Tyre and Sidon...
...palace intruder gives new urgency to an old refrain...
...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...
...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...