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Increasingly isolated in the Administration on this point, Haig has argued vehemently against any open break with Israel for a year, since the Israeli air raid on the Iraqi nuclear reactor near Baghdad in June 1981. In part, he believes that public criticism has the same effect on the stub born Begin that waving a red flag has on a bull: it only provokes him to still more outrageous behavior. Also, Haig believes that since the Israeli invasion has smashed the military power of the Palestine Liberation Organization, U.S. diplomacy has a chance not only to re-create an independent...
...three-room display offers something for even the poor fanatic. It provides the opportunity to examine the program, and the ticket stub from the game where Yaz got his 3000th...
...made after the Metcalf family, whose repeated inquiries to World were rebuffed, took their concern about the missing relatives to state police. The airline, which has been ordered by the Civil Aeronautics Board to produce all passenger documentation, claims that a no-show in Newark and an unpulled ticket stub in Oakland allowed the Metcalfs to slip through uncounted...
...President Bok, it could be a watershed, as he would gather esteem in places where he may not yet be a household word--The Rat, for instance. Students would love him--they could use the "Miscellaneous" stub in their coupon book for admission. And the crowning moment would come when Bok, perhaps dressed in cap-and-gown, stands on the stage and proclaims, in that inimitable stentorian voice: "Ladies and Gentlemen--and distinguished guests--the Rolling Stones...
...this newest electronic revolution. Even the biggest drawback to processors, their size, is shrinking. Sony, master of the mini, recently introduced a 3-lb. briefcase-size keyboard unit capable of storing text to be printed out later. A few stubborn novelists and historians may resist until the final pencil stub and the last typewriter ribbon, but in the final chapter, the processor will win. As Cerf concludes, "I have seen the future, and it glows." -By J.D. Reed. Reported...