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Unifying Europe. Critics are belatedly waking up to the dangers of the bill. The Japanese, at about the 13th hour, have just reopened negotiations with Presidential Assistant Peter Flanigan in Washington for voluntary limitations on textile sales. European governments are conferring on ways of retaliating against American exports. The first target will be the $500 million worth of soybeans that U.S. farmers sell annually to Europe. Next may come U.S. small airplanes, light machinery and computers. Steps of reprisal would be taken jointly by the six members of the Common Market, with Britain probably joining in. On a visit...
Coming attractions for this week include Webster Lewis, an organist; a panel of women from Columbia Point who will discuss the educational system; and an astrologer scheduled for Friday 13th who will "read the chart of the U.S. as if it were a person...
Before reading your October 13th article by Dr. Armand M. Nicholi on the "Motorcycle Syndrome," I thought I was a relatively well-adjusted individual. Now I realize that my outwardly confident, competitive behavior is, in fact, a cover-up for deep-seated cyclogical problems...
...joint archaeological expedition, in its 13th consecutive summer of excavation, was also engaged in restoring the ruins of the biggest known Jewish synagogue of antiquity, discovered...
...Byzantine and Persian empires and carried the crescent emblem of Mohammedanism as far west as Spain and southern France and as far east as India and the Chinese border. Saladin, a Kurdish warrior raised in 12th century Arab Damascus, defended the Holy Land against two Crusades. By the 13th century, the Arab people had forged a greater empire than Alexander the Great or any of the Caesars. With Europe engulfed by the Dark Ages, the Arabs became custodians of the world's culture and science. The unifying element was the Arabic tongue; it displaced other languages as Islam spread...