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...racism (TIME, Oct. 27), the U.S. and its Western European allies had lobbied furiously to get the impending vote postponed if not quashed. But Arab lobbying won in the end. The resolution passed easily, 72-35, with 32 abstentions. Two other resolutions directed against Israel were approved by much wider margins. One creates a 20-member committee to try to set up in what is now Israel the sort of "democratic secular state" the Palestine Liberation Organization has demanded. The other mandates a seat for the P.L.O. at any Geneva talks on the Middle East, a condition that Israel adamantly...
...sense of democracy's frailty in the face of social unrest that marks the Public Interest writers, most of whom teach politics and the social sciences at leading universities and are generally labeled "neoconservatives." Most of them were once liberals in favor of Big Government, more equality and wider distribution of wealth. In recent years they have concentrated on the need to lower expectations in Government and strive for social stability...
...night. Judging from rumors emanating from HRO members and affilliates, it might be well worth interrupting your masked Halloween ball for a couple of hours of uplifting spirits in Sanders Theater. The orchestra is bigger and possibly better than last year, and the tasteful programming should appeal to a wider variety of listeners than it has in the past...
...center, 120 feet above the diamond, the ball is frozen. Sweep down to the plate. Carl Yastrzemski is wound up in an arc, his face etched in a wide, silent scream. Sweep around in a dizzy circle. Thirty thousand necks upstretched, lungs roaring up in desperation. Sweep wider, around a city, a hundred miles, New England. The energy of a million stored-up workday hells turned to fervent belief, poised. All that energy, with a terrific whoosh, tornados up from all around, whirling and curling toward that white dot in the sky, hanging and helpless, dead. But it takes...
...waterway probably ranged in depth from 7 ft. to 10 ft., adequate for ancient barges, but the embankments were 200 ft. apart, much wider than necessary for the water traffic of that day. The Israeli scientists think they know why. Writing in American Scientist, they point out that a wide channel would have made it an effective barrier against invaders from the east, a constant threat to ancient Egypt. In addition, it would have provided essential irrigation water. Could the ancient Egyptians have built such a great canal? Yes, say the geologists. After all, hundreds of years earlier the Egyptians...