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Next week is "French Week" in Jerusalem. Its goal is to improve Franco-Israeli relations, which disintegrated after Charles de Gaulle branded Israel an aggressor five years ago and refused to deliver 50 Mirage jets that Israel had already paid...
...Homecoming. Ruth and her husband Teddy come home to England to visit Teddy's widowed father, his two brothers and an uncle, who all live under the same roof. Ruth is enigmatically cool but she crosses and recrosses her legs, and her role as the sexual aggressor is established in one line of dialogue over a glass of water. "If you take the glass," she says to Teddy's pimp brother, "I'll take you." When the pimp suggests that she become a part-time professional prostitute and "mother" the family, she strikes a crafty financial bargain...
...overwhelming burden, a continuous grinding pressure to be confronted by the constant spectre of an ever-closing ring of well-armed enemies, to whom one's very existence constitutes an act of aggression, and who rededicate themselves over and over to the total eradication of "the aggressor" under the aegis of "a holy war...a war of national liberation. "This tension has only been aggravated by the inclusion of a new factor; international power politics, as the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. play their respective moves in scenario after scenario, in which the stakes are understandably seen in Israel as being...
...instance, the Indians were infuriated that the U.S. failed to protest vigorously the imprisonment of Bengali Leader Sheik Mujibur Rahman, and that it never spoke out forcefully against Pakistan's brutal repression in its eastern province; 2) a more careful, neutral stance rather than publicly branding India the aggressor need not have jeopardized the President's China initiative and could have reduced Soviet influence in India at least marginally...
President Yahya Khan had declared the conflict a jihad (holy war) and, even while surrender was being signed in the East, he was boasting that his nation would "engage the aggressor on all fronts." He became the first political victim of the conflict. At week's end, Yahya announced that he would step down in favor of Deputy Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, head of the Pakistan People's Party. A rabid anti-India, pro-China politician who served as Foreign Minister in the government of former President Ayub Khan, Bhutto was the chief architect of Pakistan...