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...tough to keep silent. "It is not that I don't have my own opinion," he said, "but I am paid not to think aloud." One moment when Navon could not keep silent was after the Beirut massacre in mid-September, when he publicly expressed his shock and sorrow and called for a commission of inquiry to investigate Israel's role. He said later that if Begin had not appointed a commission, he would have resigned...
Only the next morning, at exactly 11, did Soviet radio and TV simultaneously broadcast the formal announcement: "The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the Presidium of the U.S.S.R. Supreme Soviet and the Council of Ministers of the U.S.S.R. inform with deep sorrow the party and the entire Soviet people that Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee and President of the Presidium of the U.S.S.R. Supreme Soviet, died a sudden death...
...farm and the marriage rapidly deteriorated. In 1914, Bror, a notorious womanizer, infected Karen with syphilis. In the future it would affect her spine and cause her incalculable agonies. Initially, though, it was sexual jealousy that provided the sorrow. After the divorce, there seemed little to hold the baroness in Africa-except Denys Finch Hatton. A romantic British figure out of a silent movie, he was a World War I veteran, pilot, expatriate and gentleman farmer. She became pregnant by him and miscarried. Four years later the lovers quarreled ferociously. A few days afterward, Denys died in a plane accident...
Joyce Carol Outes: If the Princeton Creative Writing Department's own book-of-the-week-club wins, I'll be drowning my sorrow in methyl alcohol. James Wolcoff of Harper's (and The Village Voice and New York Magazine and Esquire and the New York Review of Books...) called her last book "oozesome." Give the medal to Wolcoff Still, her name always pops up this time of year 23-1 on logorrhea in the fifth...
...Begin government in this sordid fiasco are Jews, not Gentiles; Israelis, not the Diaspora. Nor were those assailing the government exclusively members of the Labor opposition. The right-win newspaper Maariv wrote: "This whole affair, which outrages and disgusts, cannot be ended simply by a statement of sorrow. Someone is responsible here and has to take the consequences." And Eitan Haber, military correspondent for the pro-Begin paper Yediot Ahronot claimed: "Government ministers and senior commanders already knew during the hours of Thursday night and Friday morning that a terrible massacre was taking place...and they did not lift...