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...seat. Everyone shared Sadat stories. The universal respect and affection for the murdered leader was truly remarkable. The Presidents next turned to the dangers ahead in the Middle East. The conversation swung to the proposed sale of AW ACS planes to Saudi Arabia. The discussion became curiously vehement, with each of the Presidents emphasizing his support. If the Senate turned down the AW ACS deal, they agreed, America's relationship with the Saudis would undergo a dangerous change...
...decision to rebel came with agonizing difficulty to most patriots. Torn between a traditional love for the monarch and a growing conviction that his surrogates were abusing the royal prerogative, many like Quincy felt a crushing ambivalence toward their colonial rulers. Indeed, despite his vehement rhetoric, Quincy had once actually defended Hutchinson from the "Rage-intoxicated Rabble" who attacked his home years earlier upon passage of the Stamp Act of 1765. This kind of contradictory behavior characterized the actions of many men of conscience in the late colonial says; it did not come from political opportunism, but from heart-felt...
...inflation? Then, says Georgia's Sam Nunn, a Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee and a vociferous advocate of a stronger defense, "it won't take the public any longer to sour on defense than on the Great Society." Similar worries have been set forth by the increasingly vehement voice of the military reform movement, a loose coalition of military officers, civilian defense consultants, and some Senators and Congressmen who span the political spectrum from right-wing Republican to liberal Democrat. The reformers do not question the need for more spending. Says Edward N. Luttwak, of Georgetown University...
...CETA funds. Says Mayor Louis Tullio: "It's going to have a drastic effect on the nonprofit agencies, on the services they provide, and on the city of Erie." R. Benjamin Wiley, executive director of the Greater Erie Community Action Committee, which administers CETA programs, is even more vehement in describing the impact. "There's going to be more crime and more homicides," warns Wiley. "The bottom line is that if these programs are cut, you're putting more people out there on the unemployment line, and people are going to find other ways to get hold...
...incitement to overthrow the Saudi government. Saudi Arabia's normally placid King Khalid angrily denounced Gaddafi as "a Muslim outcast who deserves God's wrath" and as "a spearhead of Israel against Islam." The latter charge was both insulting and ludicrous, in light of Gaddafi's vehement hostility to Israel...