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...letter to Reagan, Begin wrote that the President's plan would lead to a radical Palestinian state in the West Bank and therefore to "a Soviet base in the heart of the Middle East" that would "endanger our very existence." Begin chided the President, saying, "A friend does not weaken his friend; an ally does not put his ally in jeopardy...
...regular free-for-all of Watt-inspired controversy. Much of it stemmed from an ill-advised letter the Interior Secretary wrote to Moshe Arens, the Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., in which Watt argued that "liberals of the [U.S.] Jewish community" who oppose his aggressive oil-development policies "will weaken our ability to be a good friend of Israel." By the end of the week, Watt had gone from saying that he was "proud" of the message to apologizing...
...military commanders are said to be critical of the ruling clergy's tendency to use human-wave attacks to achieve quick victories. These commanders believe that Iran should try to wear down the enemy more slowly without wasting men and resources. Through further attacks, they reason, they could weaken the Iraqis' morale and gradually expand the size of the Basra front, which at present is only ten miles wide. The Ayatullah reportedly rejects such talk out of hand. Complains a former military official in Tehran: "Khomeini and his aides think only of one thing, the protection of their...
...address to the Sejm. Rakowski claimed that a majority of the workers who had been in contact with the government favored a new structure in which unions would be organized by industries rather than by regions. Solidarity supporters disputed Rakowski's statement, seeing it as an attempt to weaken the independent trade-union movement. Said a 30-year-old skilled worker from Warsaw: "Maybe [Communist] Party members want such unions, but the people want unions of the Solidarity type...
...saying of the verdict: "...Yeah, and now [H.R.] Haldeman [a Nixon White House aide] is gonna be able to get a pardon by saying he committed Watergate for Jody Foster," Such analogies will be the Right's main ammunition in trying to use last week's decision to weaken controversial court practices that and defendants, like the exclusionary rule, which prohibits the use of illegally seized evidence in a trial. In defense of those liberal practices, it's worth observing two things...