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...toward war. A week ago, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy had declared in Cairo that peace in the Middle East would require Israel "not to increase the number of its immigrants for the next 50 years" (TIME, Dec. 23). The limited-immigration question has been an issue since the 1920s but it has rarely been mentioned as a formal Arab demand since 1948. Some observers believe that Fahmy's comment was directed not only at Israel as a bargaining device but also at the Soviet Union and the U.S. The Arab nations were notably annoyed by Moscow...
...Says Mike Flannery, 72, a national director of Noraid: "We do not have anything to do with arms in this organization. We have a job of relief to do, and we don't become implicated." Not that Flannery, an I.R.A. veteran who fought against the British in the 1920s, would not like to help. "If we had no law and I had the freedom to do it," he says, "I'd ship the whole U.S. arsenal over there...
...Died. Bishop Stephen G. Spottswood, 77, an N.A.A.C.P. official and spiritual leader of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. Son of a Boston porter, Spottswood's lifelong commitment to nonviolent action began in the 1920s...
...proved a deft hand at swapping and buying oil leases, and by the end of the 1920s he was a millionaire...
Almost from the time that the first television picture tube appeared in the 1920s, electronic engineers have been looking for a simpler, less fragile and more economical device for displaying images transmitted over the air waves. Now scientists at the Westinghouse Research Laboratories in Pittsburgh think that they may have found a way. At this month's electro-optics and international laser exhibition in San Francisco, they displayed the prototype of a flat-screen TV system that is less than one-eighth of an inch thick and may some day be hung on a wall like a pane...