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Fearful that the Israelis could spark open warfare by trying to take out the missiles, the U.S. launched a concerted diplomatic campaign to defuse what Secretary of State Alexander Haig called a "very, very tense" situation. In Jerusalem, U.S. Ambassador Samuel Lewis told Begin bluntly that the U.S. was terribly worried about the possible escalation. In Washington, a task force was set up to monitor events. Under Secretary of State Walter Stoessel met with Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin and urged the So viets to restrain their Syrian ally. Meanwhile, the State Department scrambled to disavow any responsibility for approving...
...House of God wildly captured the spirit of interns at Beth Israel Hospital. Paper Chase even scamed its way onto TV. There was little territory left for a writer to snatch, so LeBaron now moves us into the classrooms and anatomy labs of Harvard Medical School or, as Samuel Shem called it in House of God. BMS--Best Medical School...
...opposition to the sale, but they have been convinced by the country's military leaders that AWACS in Saudi hands could lay bare all of Israel's military secrets to Arab enemies. Prime Minister Menachem Begin reacted to the sale announcement last week by giving U.S. Ambassador Samuel Lewis a memorable private tongue-lashing. Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres, Begin's major opponent in the June 30 Israeli elections, denounced the U.S. decision as "dangerous to the peace process and security of the region." Deputy Defense Minister Mordechai Zipori pledged that Israel would take its case...
...Samuel Armacost, a Stanford M.B.A. who took over last week as president of the Bank of America: "There's nothing magical about the M.B.A. It's just natural selection. If you hire the top 10% from the top three or four business schools, your expectations will generally be met in the course of time. Our M.B.A.s are always teaching us new ways of doing things, but performance is all. If an M.B.A.'s peers perceive him as someone who thinks he's different, they'll cut him off, and he won't do well...
Seagram was founded by Samuel Bronfman, Edgar's father, who was the son of a Manitoba, Canada, frontier hotel owner. In 1925 he set up a modest whisky distillery in Montreal. The company profited enormously during U.S. Prohibition, when rumrunners smuggled Seagram's whisky to a thirsty market in the U.S. Since 1947 the company has been the world's largest distiller. Edgar succeeded his father as head of the company...