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...theoretically, with the end of that ill-fated adventure. The last Israeli units were expected to be withdrawn by the end of last week, although Jerusalem left around 100 soldiers in a "security zone" north of the Israel-Lebanon frontier. That prompted an outcry from Lebanese Shi'ites, who threaten continued warfare until the last Israeli soldier leaves Lebanon...
...Africa, with its pretentions to Western values and its close strategic alliance with the U.S. and Western Europe, has shown its deep concern for its credibility in the West. Clearly, the most effective way for the United States to force reform or any change in South Africa is to threaten and carry out removal of all political, corporate, and economic support for the system...
...weeds would be topped," says Rostenkowski, "but the roots would remain." Indeed, some see a minimum tax as a cynical ruse to avoid real tax reform. "Want to see a specialinterest lobbyist grin over his three-martini lunch?" scoffs a report released last week by the House Republican Conference. "Threaten him with a corporate minimum...
...posted earnings of $29.9 million in 1984, its first profit in four years, partly the result of cutbacks in its jet fleet and work force. TWA remains the No. 1 carrier on transatlantic routes, which are highly profitable. But losses on domestic flights, where cut-rate fares are common, threaten to wipe out the gains made on the overseas front...
...fect place to clarify American positions. Speaking on the 40th anniversary of V-E day, Reagan offered olive branches from a mailed fist. He charged that the Soviets were building first- strike nuclear weapons and vowed that the U.S. would "resist attempts by the Soviet Union to use or threaten force against others, or to impose its system on others by force." But in a conciliatory tone, Reagan said the U.S. was eager to make headway at the arms- control talks in Geneva, and that it built nuclear weapons "not in the pursuit of superiority but merely of balance...