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Shultz then flew to Beirut, where, during three hours of talks, Lebanese President Amin Gemayel stressed that he was adamantly opposed to Israel's redeployment plans. Gemayel fears that the move will lead to a permanent Israeli presence on Lebanese soil and give Syria an excuse to stay put as well. The Lebanese insisted that if Israel pulled back its troops without announcing a schedule for a total withdrawal, then Beirut might scuttle its accord with Jerusalem altogether...
...Kohl on the defensive over Germany's Nazi past, Tikhonov emphasized that the Soviet Union was particularly alarmed by the scheduled deployment of U.S. missiles in West Germany because "it would mean that, for the first time in postwar history, a military threat again stems from German soil to the Soviet people. There is no need to say what that would mean to us." Kohl, whose self-confidence is as solid as his 6-ft. 4-in. frame, seemed untouched by any sense of historic guilt. It was the Soviet Union, he said, that had upset the balance...
...minute press conference before leaving Moscow, Kohl confidently gave Soviet newsmen blunt answers every time they raised the missile issue. When one journalist began a question by proclaiming that "for the first time since World War II, plans are being made to station nuclear weapons on West German soil pointed at the Soviet Union," Kohl replied sharply: "SS-20s are deployed on Soviet territory, and they are directed at us." When another questioner said Germany had already attacked the Soviet Union twice in this century, Kohl countered that Germany was not solely responsible for starting World...
...memory as Newton intoned a snatch of King's "I have a dream" speech. Mawkishness went on to new depths, even for a July 4th, with Newton's lead-in to Tie a Yellow Ribbon. "May there never be another American held hostage on foreign soil," he solemnly descanted. "And if you feel like singing along with us, do it." Where did you say the Beach Boys were playing...
...Agriculture Department researchers along with local experts have been releasing a large nonbiting mosquito nicknamed Big Tox (after its scientific name, Toxorhynchites ambionensis), whose larvae dine on the larvae of smaller biting mosquitoes. Scientists have also had success with bacterial warfare: applying a larvae-killing toxin from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (which was discovered in Israel). But BTI is expensive, must be applied directly to a breeding site, and could encourage proliferation of BTi-resistant mosquitoes...