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...fact, the presumption that these students would or should support Israel has itself come into question. Yasir Arafat was bold enough to call on American Jews to abandon their support for the Jewish State of Israel. A dramatic turn about of this type is probably not in the offing, for if support for Israel among Jewish students at Harvard is no longer as outspoken and unquestioning as it once was, this community--with a few isolated but vocal exceptions--is likely to maintain at least an ambivalent response...
...Sadat may be reluctant to sign for fear of criticism he might get from other Arab powers. Another problem is that Israel, which has expensively fortified its present positions on the Sinai, would be reluctant to withdraw to interim lines that it might have to build up and then abandon after third-stage disengagement talks...
...displayed a very refined taste." Giovanni Spadolini, Italy's Minister of the Cultural Patrimony, was already in shock from the theft of two Piero della Francescas and a Raphael from Urbino twelve days before. Said he: "This theft sounds an ultimate alarm against the state of neglect and abandon in which both the national and local museums of this country find themselves...
Jason Miller stars as Cooper, and that is not a great deal of help. Miller's face is gouged by deep melancholy, but his hands wave about with abandon. He will begin to describe an elaborate ges ture, then pull his hand in close to his body. The effect is that of a man who has hailed a cab and then decided to walk home...
Whole World. Speaking in his Saigon palace to TIME Correspondent Peter Range, Thieu put the issue more starkly. "Do the American people like the sacrifice of 50,000 American boys to be in vain? How can you imagine coming here just to run and abandon the men who continue your ideals?" If the U.S. abandons Viet Nam, as the French did in 1954, Thieu insisted apocalyptically, "all Viet Nam will be a Communist country. All Indochina. All Southeast Asia. The whole world...