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Aviel Roshwald, a first year history graduate student, said it is important to make political leaders aware of the situation of Soviet Jews. "It is not merely a Jewish issue," he said, adding there are wider ramifications for all Soviet citizens...
...further complicated U.S. diplomatic efforts to bring about a wider Middle East peace. From the Israeli perspective, radical Iraq has gone on a military rampage with the outright support of the supposedly moderate King Hussein, while the U.S. has stood helplessly by. That spectacle will hardly make the Israelis more amenable to bringing Hussein into the ongoing talks with Egypt about Palestinian autonomy, or to mediation...
...Rolls-Royce, new meaning has been given to the term carriage trade. The venerable British firm last week showed off its new 1981 model, the Silver Spirit, which runs headlong into current automotive trends by being lower and wider than its predecessor. This is the automaker's first new four-door model in 15 years. In an understated manner, Rolls-Royce likes to boast about the subtle engineering changes in its vehicles; among other things, the Silver Spirit features a new digital-display clock that replaces the famous ticking one, which according to a famous old Rolls...
...take over as offensive coach of the Canadian Football League's Hamilton Tiger Cats. The Canadian game etched itself in Restic's football mind. A peculiar, high-scoring hybrid, the CFL employs a set of rules distinct from either the pro or college game. The field is longer and wider, 110 by 75 yards, as opposed to 100 by 55 yards here; each team gets only three downs; more than one man in motion is allowed before the snap. In short, razzledazzle. Remember that word. Restic...
...hyperbole on his own greatness and Ronald Reagan's shortcomings and John Anderson's illegitimacy as a candidate now comes close to being fiction. The totality of the White House assault on every Reagan word and phrase and on Anderson's effort to gain a wider audience seems at times a serious perversion of the campaign system. The wrath that escapes Carter's lips about racism and hatred when he prays and poses as the epitome of Christian charity leads even his supporters to protest his meanness, a judgment that was hardened last Thursday...