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...guerrillas claim 10,000 are dead. "God is my witness," said Arafat in a letter to Arab heads of state. "A massacre has been committed. Thousands of people are under the debris. Bodies have rotted. Hundreds of thousands of people are homeless. Our dead are scattered in the streets. Hunger and thirst are killing our remaining children, women and old men." Only reluctantly did the guerrillas agree at week's end to a cease-fire arranged by Sudanese Strongman Jaafar Numeiry and pressed by Arab leaders meeting in Cairo (see following story). The truce had hardly taken effect before...
...rather reticent way, Proust liked Cocteau and understood him. He once told him he wished "for something to happen that would isolate you, so that after a sufficiently long period of fasting you might again really hunger after those beautiful books, beautiful pictures, beautiful countries that you now skim over with the lack of appetite of someone who has spent all New Year's Day making a round of visits, each complete with marrons glac...
...protestations of youth [Aug. 17], as a member of the Establishment I refuse to have personal or group guilt feelings. We, too, abhor war and would prefer love and peace, but do Red China and the U.S.S.R. allow us to pursue such noble desires? We, too, are against hunger, poor housing, discrimination and poor medical care, but aren't we the ones who pay the taxes, contribute to charities and hire and help the minorities? We also approve of sex and love, even though the fire burns less furiously, and we supply the youth with the Pill, facilities...
...have reached Singapore through the Saigon black market and that the Asian dollar phenomenon will last only as long as the Viet Nam War. Impartial observers do not doubt that some "hot money" is reaching Singapore-but they point out that Asia's regard for hard currency and hunger for investment capital did not begin with the war, and will not end with...
...sight of a U.S. passport. The visitors are often astonished by the discovery that many East Europeans admire precisely the apple-pie American isms rejected by vast numbers of American youngsters. "Hungarians really admire American materialism," a 19-year-old from the University of Wisconsin said. "They really hunger for the consumer goods that seem to choke...