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...Israelis, who remain adamant about not dealing with terrorists on any matter whatsoever, hope that their hard stance will create a diplomatic deadlock on West Bank negotiations. Once the Arabs realize that it is futile to expect any talks to develop between Israel and the P.L.O., so goes this scenario, they will abandon Arafat and bring Hussein back into the picture...
Cooling Off. Arab diplomats think that the King is finished on the West Bank and the Israeli scenario is unrealistic at best. Many think that Israel missed a golden opportunity in not negotiating with Hussein before Arafat was endorsed as spokesman for the Palestinians at the Rabat summit. Certainly Hussein feels that way now. "I think Israel was terribly slow in terms of moving toward peace," he said recently. As for Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, whose plan for a gradual settlement is in clear danger, he believes that two things are needed now: a "cooling off" period...
Barthelme turns a parodist's ear to several deserving sources of modern noise. A mock scenario for a film in the manner of Antonioni blurs the line between significant ennui and utter vacuity: "Shot of nail kegs at construction site. Camera peers into keg, counts nails." A news story of four Bunnies, fired from the New York Playboy Club for losing their "Bunny image," provokes a case history: "Bitsy S., an attractive white female of 28, was admitted to Bellevue Hospital complaining that she could not find, physically locate, her own body...
...choreography. It is almost as much mime as ballet. The story is a complicated slap stick tale about a flirtatious town clown, his enemies and his inamorata (complete with mistaken identities, a fake death and an implausibly happy ending) that defies compression as well as credibility. Massine's scenario is too highly stylized to allow for many low jinks; the result is commedia dell'arte without any comedy, Punch-and-Judy minus the punch. The occasional moments of raffish humor are all provided by quick-legged Gary Chryst, 24, who leaps, whirls, jigs and flutters through the title...
...Another scenario points a way out of today's energy dilemma. Oil-exporting countries should price oil at levels competitive with those of other energy sources and then reinvest the revenues in the rich nations. This would establish, the report says, "a real partnership between the economies of the oil-producing and oil-consuming regions." But the authors do not seem to worry about the effects of this strategy on developing nations now being driven to the verge of bankruptcy by high oil prices or how it will prevent all wealth from eventually ending up in the Middle East...