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...clouded U.S.-Israeli relations. In fact, the only real controversy that emerged from Camp David was over how long the Israelis had agreed to refrain from building more settlements. Carter said that the moratorium was supposed to last for five years; Begin later claimed that he had agreed to suspend the settlement-building program for only the expected three-month period of Egyptian-Israeli negotiations...
...only to discover that Hubby has just been murdered. Rather than call the police, she and her new boyfriend set out to solve the case themselves. What follows is a series of progressively more improbable events. To buy this film's plot, it isn't enough to suspend disbelief; you have to submit to a lobotomy...
...This amounted to an imposition of martial law. In a landmark judgment, Chief Justice Roger Taney threw out the case of one John Merryman, a Southern sympathizer who had been convicted of treason by a military court. Merryman appealed to Justice Taney, who found that Lincoln had sought to suspend habeas corpus when it was "perfectly clear under the Constitution that he had no such power." In a subsequent Civil War case, the Supreme Court found that the military had had no business trying a political agitator named Lambdin Milligan in Indiana when civil courts were functioning in the area...
...everybody seated?" he croons. "Thozzze of you seated in rowzz two through 48 will be able to see the clock at the back of the room. The rest of you, start counting seconds when I say, Begin. The exam is three hourz long. Please suspend all bodily functionzz azz three izz only one bathroom...
...observers of the Arab world, it was no great surprise that Iraqi diplomatic missions figured so centrally in the bloody raids. Iraq's fanatic Baathist government rejects any negotiations whatsoever with Israel. Baghdad was annoyed when the P.L.O. in May decided to suspend its Lebanon-based military operations against Israel.* In response, the Iraqis shut down P.L.O. weapons factories in the country and reportedly intercepted shipments of arms and medicines from China intended for Arafat's troops...