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...March, Brzezinski learned through an intelligence report that Billy had a deal with Charter that could make him millions. The National Security Adviser telephoned Billy to warn him that he "should not engage in any activity that could cause embarrassment to the Administration." Zbig told the President about this call. In April, Billy received his biggest bonanza yet: a $200,000 check...
...talking with Howard Cosell. "Sure they should have stopped it. Should have been stopped in round two." And then he tries to explode. "I'll kill Larry Holmes. He warn't nothing but my sparring partner. Four times, four times I'll be champ. $20 million. Biggest thing ever. $30 million. I'm the champ, he ain't nothin' but a chump!" The man at ABC has had enough. With Ali still screaming in the backround, the slur won't go away, the scene shifts to Scott Ledoux, who is complaining about absorbing a thumb...
...Israel, the main target of Palestinian resentment is the U.S., which evokes savage condemnations that stray close to open antiSemitism. Says one bitter intellectual in Amman: "You know why I hate the American Government? Because it is not an American government, it is a Zionist government." Frustrated Palestinians often warn of the likelihood of a serious Arab use of the "oil weapon" by mid-1981. Adnan Abu Odah, a Jordan-based director of the World Affairs Council explains, "This is the question: How to make America's awareness of its liabilities outweigh its commitment to Israel...
...husband. As the diaries proceed from tragedy toward peace, Charles Lindbergh falls from legend to scapegrace, a favorite target of the Roosevelt Administration. The derision was painful and somewhat undeserved. In her convincing presentation, Charles' speeches against intervention no longer seem hysterical screeds, but misguided attempts to warn the country of its own weak defenses. And his harsh, almost mystical withdrawal from public life is sensitively shown as an extension of that first flight, "alone seeing his destination, alone having faith that he can reach it, with people on the sidelines shouting, 'Flying Fool...
...that there is little need to resist until some civil servant starts pulling draft numbers out of a hat. Those who oppose the draft must continue political efforts to stop its adoption, but resisting once a draft goes into effect may come too late. It is time now to warn the nation that we do not plan to be used as tools in one man's political campaign or as cannon fodder in a war that can claim no moral justification. If the unhappy day comes when a necessary and moral battle needs to be fought, we will volunteer...