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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...analyze and explain these complex controversies. TIME invited five of the nation's leading defense experts (see box) to a daylong National Security Issues Round Table at the Time & Life Building in Manhattan. While the analysts represented some widely divergent views, they generally agreed on a number of key matters...
...very day of Begin's return, two Israeli newspapers published interviews with Weizman calling for a "national peace government" to replace the present coalition headed by Begin. Though Weizman went to some effort to deny it, the maneuver appeared to be the opening round in a serious challenge by the popular former fighter pilot to Begin's leadership. A broad coalition government was needed, Weizman told the newspaper Ma 'ariv, because "we are at the height of a confrontation with the U.S. such as Israel has never experienced before." But, lest anybody think he was Washington...
...center-right coalition should prevail in the second round. Valery Giscard d'Estaing would emerge with strengthened authority. But he would then face perhaps a more exacting challenge: how to save his country from an economic crisis that is approaching faster than most Frenchmen realize...
...usual, TRB this week is a sprawling symphony of erudition, indignation, historical allusion and harmonic prose. His overture to a diatribe against the two-thirds Senate majority requirement for treaty approval: ''I don't know whether to start this piece with an American battleship dashing round the Horn in wartime, a biologist slicing the salivary gland of a female mosquito, a volcanic eruption killing 30,000 people . . . or the vote of the United States Senate last week on the Panama Canal...
From the beginning, the Mahre brothers have taken a casual attitude toward training, which was encouraged by their father. While most World Cup competitors were practicing year round, the Mahres switched to motorcycle racing, water-skiing and backpacking during their summers. Last year they spent their time off building a hydroplane...