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...United states marshalled a strong battle group in the eastern Mediterranean over the past week in response to rising tensions in the Middle East and following a spate of kidnappings of foreigners in Lebanon...
...everybody knows how awkward, and if people don't even want to hear about it, you know they're not going to pay money to sit there in the dark and have it brought up." So wrote Michael Herr in Dispatches, published in 1977, a year before the first spate of Viet Nam dramas. (The mid-'60s had offered a couple of World War II wheezes disguised as topical films: A Yank in Viet-Nam, so poorly received that it changed its name to Year of the Tiger, and John Wayne's hilariously wrongheaded The Green Berets, with its famous...
...evidence of deterioration in the President's physical condition. Prostate surgery on Jan. 5 has forced him to lighten his schedule temporarily, but his personal physician says he is "doing beautifully." Mentally, the President seems the same old Reagan. As one of his aides notes, the fresh spate of gossip about his detachment is "the same kind of stuff he has been accused of since the second week he has been here...
...immediate result of Meese's revelations was a spate of denials. In Jerusalem, the three top officials of the Israeli government -- Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin -- met in a crisis session and drafted a statement. For the first time, the government admitted what everyone knew: Israel had "helped in the transfer of defensive weapons and spare parts from the U.S. to Iran." But the Israelis flatly denied funneling any money to the contras. According to the statement, "The payment for this equipment was made directly by an Iranian representative to a Swiss...
Reports of Kim's demise have surfaced several times over the years, but last week's spate of false rumors was the most bizarre episode yet. They originated, so South Korea claimed, with announcements made by North Koreans over loudspeakers along the 151-mile Demilitarized Zone that divides the two countries. The same rumors popped up independently in Peking, Hanoi and Tokyo, apparently before officials in Seoul began spreading the word. Until Kim's ceremonial airport appearance, the North Koreans did nothing either to dispel or confirm the story. Little could be made of their unresponsiveness...