■ Okay, kids, here’s the deal: you don’t have to fight for Texaco, but to save gas, we’re raising the driving age to twenty-five.
■ Oops. Quiet (shhh) diplomacy took another tumble when Jimmy Carter and Cy Vance somehow failed to transmit to UN Ambassador Donald McHenry instructions to support a Security Council resolution condemning Israeli West Bank settlements only after references to occupied Jerusalem were deleted. Apparently those guys are so diplomatic they can’t even understand each other. Anyway, McHenry went on to make a little inadvertent history by voting with the rest of the gang, 15 to zip, for the unexpurgated version. Only after an uproarious reaction from Israelis, American Jewish leaders, media entrail-readers, and of course Rabbi Edward Kennedy did the White House issue a statement explaining that it was a goof, flub, boo-boo, please disregard. Now back to Iran and SALT II.
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