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Instead, Syria blinked. As Arafat's forces retreated to Tripoli after putting up a fierce fight against superior numbers in the city's suburban refugee camps, it became clear that the wily chairman could hold out longer than expected. The Saudis and the Soviets, reluctant to see Arafat destroyed, began putting considerable pressure on Syria to accept a ceasefire. The pleas at first were ignored, but then Assad was hospitalized. Though it is impossible to say what role the President's illness played, Syria approved the halt in fighting. "His sickness prevented Assad from engaging in the extensive diplomacy necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bidding for a Bigger Role: Syria seeks to become the prime Arab power | 12/19/1983 | See Source »

Amazing grace, indeed, that saved a wretch like the one we are shown. And amazing (if possibly unconscious) patronization on the part of the film's creators. There is none of the affectionate respect for working-class life and values that marked the similar, and far superior, Norma Rae, nor any of that film's sense of felt reality either. One senses that Nichols and his colleagues are reporting on a sociological field trip, that they made no instinctive emotional connections with Silkwood's milieu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Tissue of Implications | 12/19/1983 | See Source »

...Weissbecker added, "Harvard usually self-polices its own kitchens. I happen to think our standards are superior to any in the city of Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Finds Violations In Kitchen Sanitation | 12/16/1983 | See Source »

...Haven superior court Judge Howard F. Zoarski ruled that The Yale Literary Magazine must continue publication under a different name because the magazine's editors had not complied with the university's rules...

Author: By Rachel H. Inker, | Title: Yale Lit Magazine Loses Name in University Suit | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

...provided to congressional oversight committees argues that the 10,000 to 12,000 U.S.-backed contras simply lack the training, financing and political support required to overthrow the Sandinistas. The secret report, details of which emerged last week, noted that the guerrillas would be thwarted by Nicaragua's superior army and militia, which total some 100,000 troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua: Better Behavior | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

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