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Since the war started, western bank Arabs have been torn by a variety of loyalties: love or hatred of King Hussein, grudging respect or extreme dislike for the Israelis, confusion about the aims of the Egyptians and Syrians and adoration or indifference toward that elusive something called "the Palestinian entity." The result has been near paralysis. As one Jericho farmer sadly put it: "I've been doing nothing, just sitting at home listening to the radio. We don't go out at night. We are afraid...
...previously coded them with. He never actually did this, of course, but then again neither did I; I had planned to identify the returned questionnaries with inconspicuous pencil dots. I recently talked to a graduate of Lowell House who said that he planned to use slightly torn or dog-eared corners. If you're reading this with your heart sinking down into your intestines, just remember that you wouldn't really have done it either; there are very few new ideas in this world...
...outset, Egypt's decision to send armor and waves of infantry across the canal to be torn up by Israeli air-power seemed to be terrible tactics. The '67 war, in which Israeli airpower inflicted fateful casualties, was still strong in the minds of Israeli military planners. But the Egyptians created a deadly zone of ground-to-air missiles and artillery to safeguard their bridgeheads. Up and down the canal, Egyptian forces in assault boats suddenly put out a series of bridges, including three at El Qantara in the north-central sector of the canal, three more...
...products to pieces, not just verbally but physically. As soon as a new car or truck appears on the market, the other vehicle manufacturers regularly rush to buy one. Then they send it to a "teardown room," where the vehicle is put through a kind of disassembly line and torn into as many as 15,000 pieces that are hung on huge pegboards. Engineers study every part and piece to determine if it is somehow superior to their own company's product. They also analyze how much it would cost to imitate the design in their own plants...
...TORN BY the anguish and embarrassment the Nixon Administration has brought to American politics, Congressional Democrats and Republicans alike have seized upon the vice presidential nomination of their colleague of 25 years, House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford Jr. (R-Mich.), as if he indeed offered "the new beginning" the president has promised. Predicting swift confirmation, they have mistaken a hasty and politically expedient choice for a wise...