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...fear a rebuff or a defeat so much that I am afraid to try. It would have been a devastating blow to me politically and to my image as a leader had the Senate rejected the Panama Canal treaties. [Now] if we fail, I will not regret having tried...
Indeed, the U.S. response was chilly. While the State Department, after a three-day pause, merely expressed "regret" that Israel had not been more forthcoming, Washington's mood was spelled out more bluntly by one of Israel's leading champions, New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits. On the Senate floor, Javits said unhappily that the Begin government's answer was "a disappointment," a petulant declaration that is "the wrong signal, at the wrong time, and argues with the wrong party ... I hope this is not Israel's last word...
...laughs at all your jokes. When we first met, we spent six hours talking about politics and articles in The Atlantic and sex and show business and Julie Christie. He's so in love with himself that it's contagious. He's very funny. I certainly don't regret knowing him." Actress Lee Grant, a longtime Beatty watcher, feels that "Warren's conquests of women are not totally successful. His percentage is about fifty-fifty. Those he can't conquer don't want to be part of a crowd?one of Warren's girls. But the Peter Pan quality...
...forward with a good fadeaway jumper can, and increasingly does, play musical colleges. Michigan Athletic Director Donald Canham watches from the sidelines and notes: "The women had a golden opportunity to establish an athletic program with the men's mistakes as a guide. I think women will regret the change. They now have almost an exact copy of men's sports?with all of the mistakes...
Those kinds of complaints, fair or not, gave powerful impetus to Proposition 13. Whether Californians will regret their protest remains to be seen. Curiously, a Los Angeles Times poll after the balloting showed that 70% of those who supported 13 thought they would get by without any reduction in services. Many were interested simply in sending the government a message. The poll also showed that 22% felt the government provided too many unnecessary services. When asked which services they would be most willing to see cut, 69% said welfare...