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...sighted, as inventive, as amusing, as self-interested, as generous, and, above all, as capable of defining themselves in terms of or against a social system over which they have no direct control, as any other human beings. There are lives of inspiration here as well as biographies which command less respect. Large numbers of women went into foreign mission work, because it was socially acceptable. Women were among the first critics of the U.S. government's American Indian policy. They were Socialists. They were Zionists. And they were capable of deceit and hypocrisy, as in the 1890 s when...
...morning, Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin was at army headquarters in Tel Aviv. Defense Minister Shimon Peres and Chief of Staff Mordecai Gur arrived soon after at Ge'ula Street to take command. Meanwhile, the Arab commandos chose Kochava Levi, who had picked up Arabic in the streets, to translate to Israeli officials their demand for a plane to take the hostages and ten Palestinians held in Israeli prisons to Damascus or Paris. Bandaging the wounded with ripped sheets and shouting the guerrillas' terms down from a fourth-floor window, Kochava emerged as the unexpected heroine of the drama...
...vast flow of "White House photographs," selected to show a thoughtful and very human President in firm command of the nation's problems, floods the media. At the same time, access to the man is blocked by the White House Press Office...
Died. Otto Winzer, 72, former East German Foreign Minister; of heart disease; in East Berlin. A Communist from his youth, Winzer was a close aide of the late East German leader Walter Ulbricht. When Winzer took command of the foreign ministry in 1965, only the Communist bloc and a few Third World countries recognized East Germany as a sovereign state. Winzer shepherded his country into the international arena, and in 1973 East Germany (along with her neighbor to the west) was admitted to the United Nations. Poor health forced Winzer's resignation in January...
...Harvard"--a problem that did not trouble the People's Fourth Choice, Richardson. Still soggy from his bold and anguished desertion of the sinking ship of the Nixon administration, Richardson scarcely alluded to his political prospects or career: the modest former secretary of defense omitted mention even of his command over the last year of the American bombing of Cambodia. Instead, the ex. Poonster discussed his admiration for Doonesbury as class arator Daniel A. Swanson '74 berated "the men who planned this friminal war," and informed his listeners that "a lack of imagination causes cruelty." Largely ignoring a small...