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...national anthem, "but it is perishing. Time is running out. This blockade must be lifted." Addressing parliament at week's end, the general asked the deputies to pass a resolution "firmly demanding the immediate halt of all strikes." If that call went unheeded, Jaruzelski warned, the government would resort to "extraordinary means of action for the protection of citizens and the state." He seemed to refer to imposing martial law. The legislators responded with a cautiously worded resolution calling for "an end to all protest actions" and warning of possible "legal measures" against disorder. In addition, the Premier announced...
...Lifelong tax incentives to males or females who don't resort to cosmetics, hair rinse, beauty parlors, smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol. Henry Ratliff...
...about to cast the first stone." Europeans were equally cautious in their analysis. Noted one senior British diplomat: "The trend in almost all European countries is for a new leader, whether of the left or the right, to dilute the more radical policy pronouncements of his election manifesto and resort to good old pragmatism...
Fears are growing, however, that the rebellion could end in a violent confrontation between the settlers and Israeli troops. "The withdrawal should be as ugly as possible," says Menachem Digli, a former Israeli intelligence colonel who runs a resort south of Yamit. "It should leave a deep scar in the Israeli national memory." His reasoning: a fight would prevent future governments from making similar agreements about giving up the Golan Heights or the West Bank...
...about the dangers Bernard and Mathilde court by courting. Indeed, the script provides an opportunity for her to mirror their situation, which she avoids by tactful, exemplary retreat. Like her creator, she is content with compassion and the wisdom that accrues to those who observe life clearly and without resort to dubious generalizations. Bless them both...