Chance to end Israel Arab wars in Lebanon crisis
The PLO’s decline reshapes Middle East politics as Lebanon’s civil war outlook shifts. Bashir Gemayel’s election opens path for U S backed security deals with Israel and Syria, enabling troop withdrawals and a Lebanon with limited external bases for region wide conflict.
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Palestine Liberation Organization
Middle East
Lebanon
Israel
PLO
Jordan
Beirut
Syria
Bashir Gemayel
Gemayel
U.S
Peace options emerge in Middle East as Fahd Plan revival seen
The piece argues for a Palestinian homeland within autonomy in a Jordanian federation and notes a potential second chance for the Fahd Plan at a Moroccan summit. It cites shifts: Mubarak guiding Egypt back to the Arab mainstream, Syria weakened, PLO dispersed, and greater US clout with the Soviet Union distrusted, creating room for negotiated settlement and possible Israeli restraint.
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Sadat
Hosni Mubarak
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Syria
PLO
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Middle East
Soviet Union
U.S
Dems GOP Split Over Tax Bill Fed By Party Strife
OTIS PIKE analyzes the split within both major parties over the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982. Republicans show unity with some dissidents while Democrats swing between support and abstention, leaving leaders to define a coherent stance amid mixed votes in the House and Senate.
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Otis Pike
Washington
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Jack Kemp
R-N.y
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Death guide alive with facts by John McLaughlin
New York author Robert B. Dickerson Jr. issues Final Placement a guide to deaths burials and funerals of notable Americans. The volume lists 241 burials with New York connections including Cole Porter who died in 1964 and requested no service in New York. Booker T. Washington died after leaving New York for Tuskegee and Samuel Gompers died in Mexico City while seeking to return to New York.
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New York
Reference Publications Inc
Robert B. Dickerson Jr
Cole Porter
New
New York City
Porter
Washington
Gompers Porter
Booker T. Washington
St. Luke's Hospital
Tuskegee
Ala
Samuel Gompers
Mexico City
San Antonio
Texas
Famous New Yorkers and their final words in history
A collage of last words and death anecdotes from notable New Yorkers and figures connected to New York. It threads O Henry, Teddy Roosevelt, Bela Bartok, Charles Goodyear, Melville, Babe Ruth, Aaron Burr, Louis Armstrong, Scott Joplin, and Bix Beiderbecke, noting quirky, poignant, or cryptic farewell lines and deathbed scenes.
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James
New York
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North Carolina
Charles Goodyear
Connecticut
James Audubon
New York Evening Post
James Anderson
Herman Meville
Melville
New York Daily Tribune
Babe
Babe Ruth
Connie Mack
Mack
Aaron Burr
Alexander Hamilton
Louis Armstrong
Queens
Scott Joplin
Bix Beiderbecke
Beiderbecke
Newhouse News Service
Bipartisanship becomes fun in tax vote scene
In the House, Speaker O Neill lectured Republicans on loyalty to Reagan as 103 GOP members supported a tax bill. The episode framed the tax vote as a test of leadership and politics, with Democrats highlighting policy changes and Reagan facing internal party divisions over taxation reform.
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O'Neill
Thomas S. Foley
Washington
House
Foley
House of Representatives
Thomas P. O'Neill Jr
Reagan
U.S
Jack Kemp
Kemp
Republican National Committee
Reagan retools stance as California splits GOP vote
In California Reagan travels amid a party split as Pete Wilson opposes the tax bill while Jerry Brown supports it. Brown campaigns on bipartisanship opposing long Democratic spendthrift policy, warning voters to stay engaged as deficits loom and fear of no solution grows.
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San Diego
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Brown
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White House
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Ben
Deaver
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House
Thomas Foley
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