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...invasion of Lebanon has shattered old power equations and political lineups in the Middle East in such a way as to leave all parties in the area looking to Washington for help in averting a new explosion. Both moderate and radical Arabs hope that the U.S. can restrain Israel from a final assault on West Beirut; Israel is waiting impatiently for the U.S. to negotiate a pull-out of Palestine Liberation Organization guerrilla fighters from the besieged city...
Once again, U.S. foreign policy was on the defensive. Israel's bold strike into Lebanon last week broadcast an embarrassing message to the world: Washington was either powerless to restrain its headstrong Middle East client or tacitly approved of the military operation. It was a no-win diplomatic situation that raised serious questions about U.S. policy and leadership at the very moment when President Ronald Reagan and Secretary of State Alexander Haig were on a European tour that was intended to burnish the Administration's image abroad. Even the cease-fire that took effect at week...
...Israeli invasion of Lebanon crowded the carefully staged media events of the tour for headline space and TV time on two continents. Indeed, the fighting conflicted with the image of mastery of foreign policy that Reagan was trying to convey: the U.S. seemed impotent to restrain a close ally from taking an action that the President deplored...
Later after these events were retold innumerable times, there were rumors that someone had pulled a knife on someone else and that a third person's mother had been punched in the chops by an over eager tyke she had tried to restrain. The police had eventually arrived and cleared the field carting away Silverstein and Thompson who gave each other quite a bruising before they were torn apart...
...however, is not anywhere near the 12% or so that some leading businessmen say will be necessary to get consumers back buying cars, houses and other credit-sensitive items. Moreover, the economists predicted that once the recovery gains strength in 1983, interest rates could begin rising again. That would restrain growth and perhaps bring the recovery to a premature...