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Hardened Opinion. Such concessions only served to expose how far apart the two sides remain on the core issues. The Israelis, for example, have no intention of giving up Jerusalem, while the Arabs insist on the return of "every inch" of occupied soil. In the year that Jarring has been trying to bridge such gaps, Israeli opinion has only hardened against any return to the prewar boundaries. At the same time, any Arab government that tried to sign a peace treaty now would have to answer to the increasingly powerful and hard-lining Palestinian commandos. Given continued Soviet lack...
...only page of this parody which elicited a sustained laugh from me wasn't supposed to: it was Life's first full-page ad, boasting a two-inch deep, white-on-red Life logo, topped by the words, "A good ribbing?" Down at the bottom, it says, "Let it never be said that Life couldn't appreciate a good ribbing. If that were true, we would never have taken this ad. But now that you've had a few laughs, it's only fair that you also have the opportunity to enjoy the real McCoy...
...streets of Oakland for almost two years. Now, as Newton's black-uniformed followers looked on in silent anger, Alameda County Judge Monroe Friedman ordered him imprisoned for two to 15 years. Friedman denied a motion to free Newton on bail, glanced only cursorily at a 15-inch stack of petitions signed by 29,301 people testifying to Huey's character as "an honest, dedicated, loyal and selfless human being...
...possible to control such a situation with effective and tight leadership." Instead, Daley did nothing but encourage force by making it clear long before the convention that he considered the protesters to be an ill-kempt, subversive and alien breed to whom the city would not yield an inch. And in the wild melees shown on TV, few officers seemed to be around to urge a more temperate attitude...
...tailor-father. His dress runs to conservative dark suits. When he was Governor, Muskie invariably wore a clip-on bow tie, but he has since returned to four-in-hand ties. Though his tall, ruggedly handsome figure is an undoubted contribution to the image of the ticket, his five-inch advantage over Humphrey will inevitably invite Mutt and Jeff caricatures...