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...Middle East in one place, and that is where there is trouble. That has been a tactic of theirs: they do not necessarily start the trouble, but they get in and stir the pot. They could be helpful if they would use their influence to persuade Syria to withdraw from Lebanon and let the Lebanese regain control of their country...
...installations, Kennedy told the Soviets that a nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western Hemisphere would be considered "as an attack by the Soviet Union on the U.S." He ordered a naval quarantine of the island. After a tense 13-day confrontation, Khrushchev decided to withdraw the weapons. Said Secretary of State Dean Rusk: "Eyeball to eyeball, they bunked first...
...pressure on the President to withdraw the Marines from Lebanon is building. Confusion about their role and doubts about their ability to carry it out are evident across the political spectrum. A Harris poll shows that 64% of Americans now want to "pull all the Marines out of Lebanon within a few weeks or months." The figure stood at 54% in a similar Harris survey in October...
Italy, which has the largest contingent ashore in Lebanon (about 2,050 men), has set a withdrawal policy of its own. If there is an agreement in the peace talks in Geneva between the Gemayel government and the various factions vying for power, Rome will pull out its troops as no longer needed. If those talks fail, the Italians will withdraw anyway, since there will be no peace to keep. No matter what happens, the Italian force is gradually being cut in half. Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who has dispatched only 110 troops, largely as a gesture...
...also understood from its statistical read-outs the sort of music that its audience wanted; for the first months of its life, black musicians on MTV were about as scarce as Sunrise Sermonettes. Before Michael Jackson's Billie Jean appeared on MTV last spring, Columbia Records threatened to withdraw all its tapes from the channel. "We can't be all things to all people," insists MTV Programming Chief Les Garland. "It's not an issue of the type of music or the color of who plays it. It's programming, pure and simple." Things have loosened...