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...week regular season for the 28 N.F.L. teams-play stopped. TV's most popular game show was pre-empted indefinitely. The players huddled to plot union "allstar games," the first conceivably to be telecast Oct. 10 by Ted Turner. The owners huddled to try to thwart that and to consider retooling with renegades and scabs (though a few coaches, like Philadelphia's Dick Vermeil, said they were disinclined to soldier on in the company of the French Foreign Legion). As usual, the first problem was getting both sides into the same huddle...
...White House adviser: "A cynical person might think that the Israelis went into West Beirut to provoke us into some land of sanction and thus to discredit our peace plan inside Israel. But of course we don't believe that." The slaughter in the Beirut camps could, however, thwart Begin's stalling strategy and force him to pay more heed to the proposals...
Such measures sometimes thwart the outright theft of classified documents. But they are less effective in preventing employees with trade secrets stored in their heads from jumping to competitors or starting their own firms. Since 1970, ex-IBMers have launched several highly successful computer companies, including Amdahl Corp., which makes equipment that plugs into IBM systems...
...wants to court the risks of playing host to thousands of Palestinian guerrillas. Moreover, the Syrians, who still have at least 35,000 of their own troops in Lebanon, may simply refuse to leave because of strategic considerations: they insist upon control of the Bekaa Valley in order to thwart any direct threat to Damascus. For the time being, it seemed less likely that a solution could be found that would involve taking President Reagan up on his offer to send a peace keeping force of Marines to Lebanon...
...spirit of Euripides is Judith Anderson-as well she should be. She acted the title role in the adaptation's memorable 1947 premiere. At 84, Anderson plays Medea's redoubtable old nurse and reaches a peak with the oncoming slaughter of the innocents, vainly attempting to thwart the horror with chilling words of prophecy...