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Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Yehuda Blum told the Security Council last week that his country's forces would not withdraw from Lebanon until "concrete arrangements" were made to "permanently and reliably preclude all hostile action against Israel's citizens." In practice, that would mean the establishment of an effective buffer zone in southern Lebanon to prevent the return of P.L.O. forces capable of shelling settlements in northern Israel. But Israel's stated intentions concealed some far more ambitious goals. Ideally, Jerusalem would like to restore sovereignty to an independent-and friendly-Lebanese central government. That...
...brief, glorious moment, the Left was united. Trotskyists and Marxists, Social Democrats and Centrists, all mixed in harmony. It was just after the Writers' Congress, in 1936, when Leon Blum's Popular Front government came to power. Fascism was the common enemy and the glue of disparate ideologies...
Corporation members said the rate of turnover varies, but that the last appointment was two years ago, when Heiskell replaced John Morton Blum, a Yale professor...
...were incredulous," Blum recalls. "I stretched out my arms in the signal for R, meaning repeat. Then the message came again, that Roosevelt was dead. The ship's signalman turned to me and said, 'My God, Mr. Blum, who's President...
...volumes, emphasizes that Congress caused difficulties almost from the beginning. Says he: "Congress, as it is intended to be in the Constitution, was a very important tempering influence, and even in 1935 it required enormous efforts on Roosevelt's part to get what he wanted." Yale's Blum also charges Roosevelt with failure to end the Depression, and he puts the blame not only on "congressional impedance" but on general "economic ignorance." Says he: "Economists at that time really didn't know how to achieve recovery. You needed a Keynesian revolution, and this came only inadvertently with...