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Somber Mood. The ploy is certainly not lost on the enemy. Despite a perfect day of cloudless skies, beckoning beaches and flowering fields, Israel marked its 27th Independence Day last week in a distinctly somber mood. Anxious about any change in their relations with the U.S., the Israelis sent Foreign Minister Yigal Allon on an American fund-raising tour, which, not incidentally, will enable him to evaluate Washington's "reassessment" of its Middle East policy. Already, the Ford Administration has decided to hold back on sales of the Lance surface-to-surface missile and the F-15 fighter...
...Sandinista National Liberation Front. The Sandinistas have been struggling against the dictatorship since the middle 1960)s, but they captured the national imagination with a spectacular kidnapping at the end of last year. In an effort that has become known as "the event of December 27," or merely "the 27th," the Sandinistas broke into a diplomatic reception in Managua and took hostage eleven of Somoza's inner circle, leaving the dictator no choice but to comply with their demands, which were; freedom and guaranteed flight to Cuba for 15 imprisoned guerillas, $5 million in ransom, and perhaps most important...
...author, editor, columnist and diplomatic historian, he lectured statesmen and private citizens for 60 years. Although he relinquished his syndicated column Today and Tomorrow in 1967, he remained a close observer of world events. When he died last week at 85, he left the unfinished manuscript of his 27th book. Its working title, The Ungovernability of Man, reflected another, different 18th century strain in his character, an occasional Swiftian despair at the aberrations of the "minor Dark Age" into which he had been born...
Coach Baker said that he is most interested in adding depth to the squad by showing potential oarswomen how much fun rowing can be. As a result, the only fall competition, the Head of the Charles Regatta on October 27th, will not be taken very seriously...
...publishing course, now in its 27th year, takes its students on a six-week whirlwind tour of the publishing--and that does not mean just the journalism or writing--world, often spending less than a day on an entire field, for a steep $1000. The students all seem to get jobs with publishing houses, university presses and magazines almost immediately upon their graduation, partly because the course has a prestigious reputation and a lot of alumni in a position to hire people...