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...brave words and wrenching farewells. In hundreds of cases, men left for unknown destinations, leaving wives and families behind. P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat called the long siege of Beirut and the evacuation "a victory for the resistance." The P.L.O. did manage to sustain the sense of an honorable retreat, with flags flying and the endless cannonades and thunderous volleys of rockets. The departing guerrillas and the friends who saw them off fired their automatic rifles and machine guns so furiously that a U.S. Marine said he felt as though he were on a firing range. Stray bullets killed...
story. Said Rather: "Mr. Reagan told me, 'There has been no retreat by me, no change whatsoever. We will continue to arm Taiwan.' " Later, Rather said he admired the President's courteous manner: "He spoke his mind but didn't raise his voice ... Hope he won't hesitate to call again...
Since the imposition of martial law almost nine months ago, Solidarity has once more become the stuff of dreams, its organizational structure crushed and its leader, Walesa, under house arrest. While calling on Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev at his summer retreat on the Black Sea last week, Poland's leader, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, labeled the tattered remnant of the suspended trade union a "counterrevolutionary underground, whose activities are inspired and supported from the outside, mainly from the United States...
...seems to have got the better of the beach battle. The Soviet beach in question is a fly-ridden, muddy stretch usually avoided by Americans. The Yanks prefer the posher facilities on the Kliasma River near their weekend retreat at Tarasovka, 15 miles north of the capital. Not only that, but Moscow's retaliation failed to include the local tennis courts, where U.S. diplomats are still happily batting away; there is no golf course in Moscow from which U.S. diplomats can be banned...
...week in a luxury vacation retreat each year for the rest of your life for just $8,000, plus a small annual maintenance fee. That is the appeal of time-sharing ownership, the hottest and most controversial part of the depressed residential real estate business. New housing starts are at their lowest point since World War II, but during the past seven years the time-share business has exploded from $50 million to $1.3 billion in annual sales...