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...though the relationship, as the Old Testament that Begin knows so well might have put it, was sore tried. Angered by U.S. criticism, Israel continued to withhold from the U.S. the military intelligence, including technical information concerning captured Soviet-made weapons, that it had gleaned from the fighting in Lebanon. Four days after President Reagan announced his peace plan, which included a request for a freeze on the building of new Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, the Israeli government stubbornly allocated $18.5 million for the construction of eight new settlements in the West Bank...
Israelis are also tired of the hard-liners' justifications for conflict. They don't all buy Begin's assertion that Israel should expand to its Old Testament boundaries. They see the need for compromise, after so many trying years attempting to increase national boundaries towards the Biblical ones. Many believe Israel shouldn't be expending its energy or damaging its image abroad by trying to defend such perimeter territories as the West Bank and the Gaza Strip...
...West German press, which has traditionally gone out of its way to avoid criticism of Israel, has begun to criticize Begin's belligerency. Die Zeit has decried the Israeli "bloodbath" as going beyond what could be justified as the "eye for an eye" justice of the Old Testament...
...third senior economic adviser to quit in the past two months, and critics of the Administration's policies seem to be gaining strength. Publicly, though, Weidenbaum remains optimistic about the eventual payoff of the Reagan policy. He remarked last week that he feels like Moses in the Old Testament. Said Weidenbaum: "He led his people to the Promised Land, but did not quite make it there himself...
...Pound's poetic creations, a British reactionary born in a savage half-century, "out of date with his time." Findley's Mauberley rushes to catch up with his century. Cowering in a crumbling Alpine hotel that has seen grander times and better people, he writes a graffiti testament in rooms once occupied by the likes of Isadora Duncan and Somerset Maugham. He has barely finished when someone stabs him. The body and the writing are found by American soldiers, liberators of the death camps. Captain Freyberg, a fanatical Nazi-hunter who ironically places the Dachau gate sign, ARBEIT...