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...impeachment would destroy his ability to govern. Said Virginia's Colonel George Mason at the Federal Convention: "No point is of more importance than that the right of impeachment should be continued. Shall any man be above justice? Above all, shall that man be above it who can commit the most extensive injustice?" South Carolina's Charles Pinckney countered that impeachment would enable the legislature to hold "a rod over the Executive and by that means effectually destroy his independence...
Eban: If you're talking about guarantees in a peace settlement, let's eliminate some illusions. The major powers [including the U.S.] apparently don't intend to commit their forces to the Middle East. The U.N. is an arena for waging conflicts, not an instrument for solving them. It cannot "guarantee" anybody's security or take a single step without Arab consent. Israel's guarantee must be its own strength as well as secure boundaries that permit her to absorb an attack without being destroyed...
...exhausted winners and losers and no change of heart. But this time necessity may impose solutions. The Arabs, even if ultimately defeated, have already restored their pride. The Israelis, even if again victorious, might take counsel of the loss of so many men and ask whether they can safely commit their future to a succession of "rounds" of fighting. The U.S., in helping Israel with Phantoms, is taking risks and acquiring rights and interests of its own, including a say in the timing of a cease-fire and a commitment to a settlement. A more active American and Soviet presence...
...imagination of how it would be without imagination. The late Beckett works grow more and more indeterminate, and the masks of the characters more featureless. It is Buster Keaton, "The Great Stone Face", who stars in Beckett's only film script--and even the title is unwilling to commit itself to anything more specific than Film. In the thirty-five second long Breath, the only elements are rubbish and recorded cries and breaths. (This sequence, Alvarez somewhat startlingly reveals, was written for the revue Oh, Calcutta, but withdrawn by the author when producer Kenneth Tynan insisted on scattering naked bodies...
...next day Bloom became the first person in the Boston area to commit himself to a six-month stay in Israel. He has arranged to take off the 1973-74 academic year, and expects to leave within a week. He is the only Harvard student so far who has answered the Israeli call for American volunteers...