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...Bank? Probably not, although the heavy Jewish migration into a region that was almost totally Arab has made Israel's intentions uncertain. Today the West Bank has 72 Jewish settlements, with a population of 24,000. Fourteen more communities are under construction. These outposts are inhabited mainly by middleclass, well-educated Israelis, who believe that the Bible gives them a timeless right to the land and who insist they will not move, come what...
...only 32% of the area's advertising linage in the face of stiff competition from the morning Inquirer (circ. 429,000), two smaller dailies and 24 suburban papers. Says one Philadelphia ad agency executive: "The Bulletin is thought of as being the second paper. If you want the middleclass, upper-income reader, you go to the Inquirer...
...final pressure point is the courtroom, where judges and juries have rarely imposed stiff punishment on these largely middleclass, otherwise law-abiding defendants. RID has now set up a program in New York called Court-watch to study each judge's treatment of drunk drivers. If the judges are not tough enough, they risk RID's opposition on Election Day. Aiken claims that her group was primarily responsible for defeating a judge whose 75% conviction rate seemed...
...there is any lesson to be learned from ventures of this sort, it is that middleclass, middle-brow people should not try to show their superiority to other middleclass, middle-brow people by at tempting to satirize them. In the process they only prove the truth of Pogo's immortal cry: "We have met the enemy...
...whole, the answers have been highly unfavorable towards the cults, and highly narrow in outlook. The whole spectrum of U.S. opinion has come down hard on these groups. The traditional establishment correctly perceives them as destabilizing, offering alternative values and lifestyles not easily controlled by the usual middleclass institutions and therefore dangerously unpredictable. In rejecting the acquisitive values of the mainstream the cults reject America. The political left and remnants of the '60s movements also attack the cults with a passion; after all, the cults focus attention on spiritual matters, self-realization, mystical attainment, and divert attention from the ever...