Word: authorization
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Although the West Bank unrest did not figure directly in the Knesset debate, it too reflected on Begin, if only because he has doubled as Defense Minister since Weizman resigned last May. Israeli authorities have been increasingly tough in exercising control over the area's 700,000 Arabs. Since July, all three of the univer sities have been subject to military super vision. The tensions on the West Bank reached a break point after Israeli author ities shut down Bir Zeit University to prevent it from holding "Palestinian Week" activities. In El Bireh, a small town near by, about...
...students of France. The agitated man in robe and pajamas banging at the door with his dire tidings was no less prestigious: Louis Althusser, 62, among the diminishing survivors of the country's great postwar intellectual set and an academic star at the school. Althusser is a respected author, critic and interpreter of both Montesquieu and Marx. In fact, he is a devoted Marxist who has stirred up the party and Parisian salons alike in recent years with well-reasoned attacks on French Communists for stifling party discussion and rejecting Marx's basic teaching about class struggle...
Meanwhile, on Good Morning, the show's own medical expert, Dr. Tim Johnson, may be talking about herpes. Author Erma Bombeck may be trying to elicit a few laughs with her stories of life in untamed suburbia. One of Good Morning 's greatest assets in the second hour is Mary Ellen Pinkham, who has probably contributed even more to domestic felicity than Sara Lee. It was Pinkham who disclosed to the country that Saran Wrap is easier to control if it is put into the freezer (it does not cling to itself when cold) and that cottage cheese...
...current Producer Steve Friedman). "When I arrived in May 1976, the news ran from 7 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. After the weather there would be a 20-minute debate between the lovers of seals and the users of seals. From 8 to 8:15 an interview with the author of India from 1822 to 1925. At 8:30, after more news and weather, there would be a 20-minute interview with Yehudi Menuhin." Says TomBrokaw: "Sometimes Today was just plodding...
DIED. Andrei Amalrik, 42, exiled Russian dissident and human rights advocate; of injuries received in a collision as he was driving to attend meetings in conjunction with the Helsinki conference in Madrid; near Guadalajara, Spain. A historian and author of the 1970 book Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984?, in which he predicted the downfall of the Kremlin regime, Amalrik was twice exiled to Siberia before being pressured in 1976 to emigrate to the West, where he has lived in The Netherlands, the U.S. and France. When he was sentenced in 1970 to three years in prison, he wrote...