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That went for the Israeli lobby in the U.S. as well. Begin telephoned Jewish leaders to give his account of the talks' collapse. Israel's Justice Minister Shmuel Tamir, who was on a U.S. tour, encouraged pro-Israel groups to launch a write-in and telegram campaign aimed at the White House and Congress. A group of 33 Jewish intellectuals, including Writers Saul Bellow and Irving Howe, who have criticized the Begin government's inflexibility in the past, sent Carter a letter saying that Washington's support of Cairo's position was "unacceptable...
DIED. Willard Mullin, 76, illustrious sports cartoonist whose incisive, comic pen-and-ink drawings appeared in the New York World-Telegram and such magazines as LIFE and the Saturday Evening Post for more than three decades, and who created the Brooklyn Bum, a grizzled, cigar-chomping caricature of the Brooklyn Dodger baseball fan; of cancer; in Corpus Christi, Texas...
Last week Cronkite sent his RSVP: a telegram demanding that Sakowitz "cease and desist" advertising him as available. It turns out that the store had obtained the names from a speakers bureau that represents Cronkite, but the bureau had never cleared the idea with him. Just one less mouth to feed...
...Salaam. Obote was soon joined by 20,000 refugees who had fled the Ugandan tyrant's bloodthirsty attempts to wipe out all opposition. A year later, the exiles staged a poorly organized coup attempt against Amin, who has never forgiven Nyerere for backing his enemies. In one sneering telegram, Amin told the Tanzanian President, "I love you very much, and if you had been a woman, I would have considered marrying you, although your head is full of gray hairs. But as you are a man, that possibility does not arise." Last week Big Daddy, a former heavyweight champion...
...hidden barrier, Weil agrees, is "the gigantic Japanese bureaucracy, with its bias against foreign manufactured goods." This shows itself in many ways. Government agencies like the railways and telegraph and telegram systems, which spend roughly $52 billion a year, have been under orders to "buy national," and although this restriction has been eased in recent months, old habits die hard and few foreign orders have been placed. And when the government does not want to buy foreign, wholesalers and industrial buyers steer clear of imports as well. At the same time, customs officers have been known to effectively shut...