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...more efficient, and easier on the liver, than sitting in bars night after night, hoping for a lucky encounter. Yet one feels sometimes a slightly disturbed and forlorn vibration in those columns of chirpy pleading. It is inorganic courtship. There is something severed, a lost connection. One may harbor a buried resentment that there are not parents and aunts and churches and cotillions to arrange the meetings in more seemly style...
...cause of the uproar was the scandal that has been steadily increasing since the Rainbow Warrior, the flagship of Greenpeace, the 1.5 million-member environmental protest group, was bombed and sunk on July 10 in the harbor of Auckland, New Zealand, killing a Greenpeace photographer. The ship, which was sunk by two bombs attached to its hull, was about to lead a protest against French nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll, 700 miles southeast of Tahiti. The evidence, trumpeted across the country last week by a French press in full cry, strongly suggests that France's secret service, the Direction Generale...
...patience for groups like Greenpeace that oppose it. Thus the public seems concerned less with the bombing than with the bumbling way in which it was carried out. Opposition leaders and newspaper editorials have focused their attacks on the long trail of obvious clues, including the discovery in Auckland harbor of a dinghy and air tanks bearing French markings and commonly used by the French military. "We have legitimate interests in the Pacific," says Jacques Larche, chairman of the Senate laws committee. "The only thing that I reproach about the affair is that it failed...
When Henry James sailed out of New York harbor for Europe in 1875, Ellis Island, to his right, was just an empty rock, and the city he left behind was ethnically familiar. When he returned for a visit three decades later, everything had changed. Into the city had come millions of people from Ireland and Italy, Jews from all over Europe, Danes, Swedes, Finns and the rest. James was astonished at the polyglot place his old New York had become, at the "hotch-potch of racial ingredients" on the city's streets...
Many immigrants are still the tired, the poor, the huddled masses whom the Statue of Liberty traditionally welcomed to New York Harbor. But the newcomers disembarking at Kennedy Airport or Miami or Los Angeles also include the successful. Baron Guy de Rothschild, for example, recently took refuge in New York City from the vagaries of French Socialism. Australia's publishing tycoon Rupert Murdoch, who has made a deal to buy seven television stations in the U.S., announced in May that he would become a U.S. citizen. The roster of Soviet immigrants includes not only the black-garbed babushkas huddled over...