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DIED. Simon Oakland, 61, husky, gravel-voiced character actor; of cancer; in Cathedral City, Calif. Best known as the abrasive psychiatrist who provided tidy Freudian explanations for the murders in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, Oakland also starred in three TV series (Toma, The Night Stalker, The Black Sheep Squadron) and portrayed a terminally ill cancer patient in the 1977 Pulitzer-prizewinning Broadway play The Shadow...
...backed by aircraft and heavy weapons, including as many as 400 tanks and armored vehicles on the outskirts of Faya-Largeau, which the government of Chad is unable to match. The Libyan air force has a base for its fighters in the Aozou Strip and at least one squadron of Soviet-built Tupolev-22 bombers based at Sabha in central Libya...
...largest U.S. military contingent in Central America is based in Panama to protect the canal. It includes 9,000 Army, Navy and Air Force personnel, who man an infantry brigade, a squadron of A-7 light attack jets and a Special Forces airborne battalion. Although these forces could be carried by C-130 troop transports to Honduras or Nicaragua in less than two hours, security of the canal presumably would be of great concern in a military crisis in Central America. Any responding American troops would probably be airlifted from the U.S. in the manner soon to be rehearsed...
...gone. American Jewish leaders were nearly unanimous in calling for Sharon's removal in the wake of the massacre commission's report, but they also stressed that his departure should not lead to a change in Israeli policies on Lebanon or the West Bank. Said Howard Squadron, president of the American Jewish Congress: "It doesn't make a particle of difference...
...Howard Squadron, president of the American Jewish Congress, sharply criticized Reagan's proposals but nonetheless said they could become "an important contribution to the advancement of peace in this area," and Thomas Dine, executive director of the 30,000-member American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the official lobby for American pro-Israeli groups, initially declared that he saw "a lot of value" in them. But after the Arab League at its summit meeting in Fez, Morocco, continued to insist on an independent Palestinian state, the A.I.P.A.C. issued a formal statement charging that Reagan's plan had fallen victim...