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...hawks more hawkish than ever, doves more dovish. No one expects the voters to defeat the popular Mrs. Meir, a hawk who has constantly urged a tough stance toward the Arabs. Her Labor Party and the leftist Mapam Party, its principal ally in Israel's coalition government, should retain a majority of the Knesset's 120 seats...
Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, though, may have struck out as a potential successor to Golda Meir. Al though he very likely will retain his Cabinet post, his prestige has fallen. Israel's swift victory in the Six-Day War made Dayan a national hero. But the heavy casualties that Israel has suffered this time, plus the fact that the Arab attack took the country by surprise, have now hurt him. Uri Avneri, a longtime Dayan enemy, gleefully said last week: "The Dayan myth is dead...
...Cambridge Voters can't impeach inept City Councilors however, we will be voting on November 6 to elect a responsible majority to retain Rent Control, Stop the Kennedy Museum, Stop Police Harassment, Control High Rise and much more. Help Cambridge...
...need for a reform majority on the School Committee to retain and support Superintendent Cheatham...
...wrestled Texas Democrat Ralph Yarborough to the floor of a Senate corridor. ∙ When Jonathan Livingston Seagull's creator Richard Bach sold the supergull to Hollywood, he believed he had ensured the movie's integrity. He thought his contract entitled him to write the script and to retain control over the finished film. Enter Producer-Director Hall Bartlett, who was so proud of his acquisition that he declared: "I was born to make this movie." Perhaps worried that someone might miss the message, Bartlett allegedly rewrote the dialogue: the result is Billygrahamese. Asking for a preliminary injunction...