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...Israel, and indeed the world, wanted to know the chain of events that had led to the massacre and to what degree the Begin government was culpable. In the welter of contradictory reports, certain facts were incontrovertible. Top Israeli officers planned many months ago to enlist the Lebanese Forces, made up of the combined Christian militias then headed by Bashir Gemayel, to enter the Palestinian refugee camps once an Israeli encirclement of West Beirut had been completed. This plan was prepared at a time when the camps were still used as bases by the Palestine Liberation Organization. On several occasions...
...first hole in the air waves last Thursday night, ABC-TV offered instead The Cheap Detective, a comedy film about a befuddled gumshoe. Not such an inappropriate choice, perhaps. Though there is nothing cheap about this conflict, a dogged investigator may indeed be needed to wade through the welter of plans, positions and proposals to figure out whodunit. Who is responsible for the strike and what exactly is the fight about...
...Amid the welter of claims and counterclaims, President Ronald Reagan told reporters in Washington that the attack had come as a "complete surprise" to him. He said that it would not deter the U.S. from seeking a peaceful solution to the conflict, even though the U.S. had openly declared its support for Britain only a day earlier. Declared Reagan: "All I know is we will stand ready to help...
...question remains: How did a 1945 manuscript by a major writer get lost in a welter of financial records? Sissons can think of only one reason: "Peters must have been clearing out his desk, found the typescript and just dropped it in the 1970 file...
...called the Blarney Stone. I patronized the Blarney Stone's grill, but the bar was never short for business. Each day, a cluster of grizzled old guys huddled around one corner of the counter, nurturing their pints and carrying on what appeared to be an endlessly repeating discussion of welter weight boxing. And at a table in the back, two small mailmen sat down everyday, without fail, and quietly drained a pair of enormous pitchers...