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...Middle East. The U.N. is an arena for waging conflicts, not an instrument for solving them. It cannot "guarantee" anybody's security or take a single step without Arab consent. Israel's guarantee must be its own strength as well as secure boundaries that permit her to absorb an attack without being destroyed...
...retrospect, was Israel's decision not to make a pre-emptive strike but to absorb the first punishing blow from Egyptian and Syrian forces the right...
...gaping holes in the concrete barracks, where clothing, boots and Playboy foldouts lay under the debris. The hospital was filled with injured Israeli soldiers. Surviving members of the base's original defenders were returning, still stunned by the Syrian attack. One said: "I can't begin to absorb what I have seen." Another bitterly remarked: "Our government was idiotic not to attack first. We have suffered too much just to placate world opinion [by not launching a pre-emptive strike...
However, the new freshman dormitory, with a capacity of about 200, will not be large enough to absorb the 225-student increase resulting from the first three years of the 2.5-to-1 plan...
...Parking--It is unlikely that Cambridge can absorb over a thousand tourist cars during peak summer days, especially when the municipal spaces now on the library site are lost to construction. The cars will overflow onto the city's streets, where parking spaces are already severly limited...