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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Certainly, Israeli strategists would be delighted if Nasser were to be toppled as a result of their war of nerves. Though no alternative to Nasser is in sight, proponents of the present strategy argue that in any case the strikes have delayed a new round of full-scale fighting by at least five years. Nasser has admitted that he is in no position to liberate the Sinai Peninsula at present. Israeli losses from shelling on the Suez have plummeted from a monthly peak of 30 killed and 76 wounded in July to 5 killed and 20 wounded last month...
...still too early to predict the outcome of perhaps the most important topic of all-the reorganization of Czechoslovakia's 1,500,000-member Communist Party (in a population of 14 million). According to present plans, all membership cards will be withdrawn and, after a gigantic review of every member's behavior during the Dubček era, new ones issued. Who will get the new cards? The ultraconservatives argue that the party should expel anyone who supported Dubček. That, of course, would reduce the party to a skeleton. Echoing Huáak, the party paper...
...Defense Attorney William Kunstler had hoped that Clark's recollections would shed light on whether the riots were incited by the seven or by the tactics used to contain them. Judge Hoffman has made little secret of his opinion that police behavior is outside the scope of the present trial...
...things are going," remarked a newsman in Manhattan, "reporters will soon have to preface an interview with the caution, 'You have the right to remain silent and to have a lawyer present. Anything you say may be taken down and used in evidence against...
Rising Costs. Wall Streeters, of course, have usually tended to take extreme views-and they could be overly pessimistic at present. Their mood has been dampened by a recession in their own business; trading volume is down from 1968, bonuses have been cut back or eliminated, and a shortage of capital has forced many firms to merge. There is a maxim on the Street that warns against following the crowd: when everyone agrees on something, the opposite may be true. From the vantage point of lower Manhattan, things may look worse than they really...