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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hold together the Likud coalition, a fragile alliance of seven factions. His political mettle will also be tested by a formidable list of domestic and foreign problems. Not only have the deaths of 517 Israeli soldiers in Lebanon over the past year failed to guarantee peace, but the price tag for the occupation of Lebanon comes to more than $1 million a day. This burden comes at a time when inflation is racing along at a triple-digit rate and foreign debt has reached $20.9 billion. Israel has also gone through a testy period in its relations with...
While I appreciate the technology that has enabled us to put a soldier's complete record on his plastic microchip dog tag, [July 25], I am appalled at what could happen if a G.I. were captured. The enemy would be able to read the information with his own computer, thereby leaving the soldier unprotected and destroying the doctrine of "name, rank and serial number...
...actors swing on ropes, on tree-limbs, on tires, they wear buckets, newspapers or cans as hats, hub caps as shields, they make wooden boards, wired sheets, plastic boards into musical instruments, and much more. While their ingenuity with props would impress any junkman, coupled with the rag-tag costumes they actually complement the patchwork nature of the entire show...
...Station Task Force has said, however, that NASA is contemplating a "modest but useful" station with room for six-to-eight crew members. Such a station, which would probably consist of several modules for manufacturing, conducting scientific experiments and other uses, could be in operation by 1991. Possible price tag: $8 billion to $9 billion...
Mini indeed. The original Marshall Plan for Western Europe after World War II was fueled by a U.S. contribution of $13.6 billion; that would amount to $50.9 billion today. Yet the initial U.S. price tag for the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI) was $350 million, less than seven-tenths of 1% of the Marshall Plan adjusted to 1983 dollars. Only last week did Congress pass a scaled-down portion of the CBI, 17 months after Reagan originally proposed...