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...LOST would have our country surrender its sovereignty on the seas to a body called the International Seabed Authority (ISA), whose membership is stacked in favor of Third World nations. If the Senate ratifies LOST, we will have given the ISA the authority to determine what rights our country will have to mine minerals located on the ocean floor and the right to tax their extraction only hope that conservatives across this nation will come to the defense of our country’s sovereignty by making it absolutely clear, in no uncertain terms, where they stand. If everyone does, I am confident...

Check this out. In 1982 I was hanging out at Fanuiel Hall with two pals (we were all about 16 & girls). Well, there were some boys our age dressed up in ruffly shirts and such. We got to chatting with them and they were the high school band playing that night at the Victory Party for Dukakis. I convinced the boys to give us their party pins, because they were dressed like the band and would get in without them. Thus, my pals and I stood in the reception line and met Mike and Kitty. My one friend asked...

BOSTON - A decade after he lost a bid for the U.S. House, John Kerry (news - web sites) faced a choice: build a respectable, mainstream career in Boston's legal circles or wade back into the muddy waters of Massachusetts politics. "After '72," said Dan Payne, a Democratic consultant who later worked for Kerry, "John told friends he wouldn't run again." Few believed him. When he decided in 1982 to return to politics, Kerry aimed low: lieutenant governor, a post with little power, few responsibilities and almost no public profile. But it offered a chance to build a statewide political...

Reagan Says That Peace Depends On Support for U.S. Arms Buildup:Reagan Links Peace to U.S. Arms By LESLIE H. GELB Special to The New York Times Apr 17, 1982 WASHINGTON, April 17 -- President Reagan said today that "nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought" but that peace depended on public support for a continuing American military buildup.

SOVIET TERROR LINKS FOUND IN LEBANON Our major media have long ignored or downplayed evidence linking the Soviet Union and its satellites to international terrorism. When Robert Moss, co- author of The Spike, told an international conference on terrorism held in Jerusalem in 1981 that the PLO had become a Soviet surrogate in the Middle East, the reaction of the representatives of the press was one of cynicism mixed with hostility. Wall Street Journal correspondent Susan Weaver explained the negative reaction to Moss's statement, saying that linking the KGB with world terrorism through the PLO "cast a dark shadow on...

The battle for Sultan Yakoub on June 12, 1982, was one of the bloodiest episodes of the Lebanon War. As the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) pressed northwards into the Bekaa Valley on the eastern front, a column of armored vehicles became ensnared by a Syrian ambush in a narrow pass. Thirty soldiers died in a fierce day of fighting, in what was seen as the army's biggest intelligence failure of the war. The bodies of three IDF soldiers – Zacharia Baumel, Yehuda Katz, and Zvi Feldman were never retrieved. Two IDF tanks disappeared during the battle: Katz commanded one, while...

On June 11, 1982, the fifth day of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, during the height of a battle with Syrian forces in eastern Lebanon, a Syrian anti-tank missile shell hit an Israeli Patton tank. The tank caught on fire and four Israeli crew members leaped from it - commander Hezi Shai, cannon man Ariel Lieberman, cannon loader Zvi Feldman and driver Zecharia Baumel. Shai and Lieberman were captured. Feldman and Baumel were never found and since Operation Peace for Galilee they have been declared MIAs. It was reported Sunday that the Israel Defense Forces intends to soon declare Feldman,...