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...promised cease-fire to show on the ground. But Israeli patience is thin. After the bombing, Israel closed all crossings from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank and barred Arafat from using the Gaza airport. Across the beachfront promenade from the Dolphinarium, Israeli rioters besieged the Hassan Bek mosque even as the Cabinet met. Rioters wearing swimsuits crossed from the beach to the mosque to hurl stones at a few dozen worshipers and to charge police, who brought up water cannon and horses. Even many of the left-wingers who support the peace process are on board with Sharon...
...such comments would have been considered a betrayal of socialist ideals and Isayev would have been sacked. Today, with glasnost gusting through the Soviet Union and communism lying in tatters throughout Eastern Europe, teachers and pupils in these countries are experiencing a new burst of intellectual freedom. Exults Jaroslav Bek, an English teacher at Prague's Belojannisova Street School: "At last we can tell the truth to the children...
...best and most genuine pieces in the show are the small drawings, perhaps because they don't try to serve any purpose beyond pleasing the eye. The taut elegance of Sadiqi Bek's Lion Tamer and the grace of Riza's A Young Man in a Blue Cloak prove that these two were artists of the first rank. And the drawings of Mu'in Musavvir, Riza's most gifted student, are delightful. His Squatting Camel is not to be missed...
Savage is as savage seems, for this is a play in one of drama's contemporary styles, "the theater of cruelty." Beclch (pronounced Bek-lek) is fuzzy, occasionally shallow and boring, but it is also a gory blood pudding of a play oozing violence...
Next day at the University of North Dakota, in Grand Forks, 1,000 men and coeds jammed into a mass meeting. Up jumped Dean William G. Bek and roared: "Field work is not beneath any of us, and any one of you who thinks so is a slacker in every sense of the word." Then & there the college decided to shut down for two weeks and man the fields. So also did the North Dakota Agricultural College, the State teachers' colleges...