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...bemused to read that a member of Israel's Knesset feels that U.S. aid is causing Israel to lose its independence. He should know that many Americans resent the billions given to his country from our taxes. An alien theocracy is the antithesis of American democracy and all it stands...
...Beirut area to Lebanon's Awali River last September, 55 soldiers have been killed and 436 wounded in terrorist attacks. Most of the violence is caused by the Shi'ite Muslims, who make up more than half of the almost 1 million population in southern Lebanon and deeply resent the continuing Israeli presence. Assaults have declined in the past month, but an Israeli patrol was ambushed near a Shi'ite village last week, and one soldier was killed...
Shamie, for his part, insists that he is not being overzealous in his attacks on the more subdued Richardson. "The nature of my attacks deals with specific positions, issues, it's not personal, and I don't think anyone should resent the fact that I point out that he flip-flops from one position to another, that he opposes President Reagan on major issues." Shamie said in an interview last week. "That's not an attack, that's simply a description of our differences on the issues...
...conversation makes it clear that she is indeed, as she says, "a flaming liberal Democrat." But no, she will not use the column to let the air out of Ronald Reagan. Politics "isn't my beat," she explains; her readers would resent it. She does take risks with her writing, though she says, "You have to stand out there in your bloomers for a lot of years" before you have earned your readers' trust enough to try something radically new. Bombeck's readers have accepted a sharp departure in her latest book, Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession...
Irwin says she was sober. According to her lawyer, Alan Goodman, she declined the test for fear the police would falsify the results: many Ware residents resent Irwin's financial windfall at the taxpayer's expense. The arrest, he suggests, "appears to be more than coincidental." But Police Chief Stanley Mettig is unbudging. Declares he: "The bottom line is she was caught red-handed...