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...benches and unceremoniously evicted the militant Protestants by force. That set off a full-scale fracas on the steep steps of the white-stone building. "Don't come crying to me if your homes are attacked," Paisley shouted at the police during the melee. "You will reap what you sow." The following day, the veteran firebrand predicted "hand-to- hand fighting in every street in Northern Ireland...
...even as the President basked in domestic approval, shock waves from the Achille Lauro incident rippled through a world once again shown to be vulnerable, in messy and unpredictable ways, to the instability that terrorism seeks to sow. In Italy, the coalition government of Prime Minister Bettino Craxi, a staunch U.S. ally, suddenly collapsed in an imbroglio triggered by the EgyptAir interception. In Cairo, university students poured into the crowded streets, burning American flags and chanting anti-U.S. slogans, while President Mubarak voiced his own sense of pain and humiliation over the incident. As Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres...
...every reason to share Assad's concern over the fundamentalist Shi'ites' growing power. A permanently radicalized Lebanon would doubtless try to sow subversion among moderate Arab states throughout the Persian Gulf, many of them U.S. allies and oil suppliers...
...town's upper class, especially since she is not part of it. Here it is 1947, and what with food rationing and the gentry hoarding giblets in their attache cases, Joyce can't get a decent piece of meat. Not, at least, until Betty comes to visit. A plump sow with a sweet disposition, Betty is the Chilverses' ticket to burgherhood--if only Gilbert can bring himself to slit the throat of his new companion. "It's not just pork. It's power," Joyce tells her sweet, weak husband. "Kill your friend!" Can he resist Joyce's way with...
...research, not to actual testing and deployment. According to close aides, the Prime Minister has serious doubts about the scientific feasibility and strategic logic of Star Wars. She cautioned that the Soviets might attempt to use the arms-control talks in Geneva, scheduled to begin March 12, "to sow differences among us." Said Thatcher: "Let us be under no illusions. It is our strength, not their good will, that has brought the Soviet Union to the negotiating table in Geneva...