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...several points in my life. Shortly after first entering prison at the age of 21 I resolved that I would continue my existence if I could not somehow choose to change my attitude in such a way as to allow my life to assume a direction which might accord it a meaning other than criminal; in short, I decided to live my life in a manner that could be understood in its totality by others...
...airliners were hijacked three weeks ago. Moving through the battered New Camp, a detachment suddenly heard shouts from a locked house: "We are foreign hostages. Help, help! Don't shoot!" Eight Britons, six Swiss and two West Germans were freed. Soon afterward the guerrillas, on their own accord, released 32 more hostages, leaving six Americans still unaccounted for at week...
...hang on to it; Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito, after a remarkably long run of 25 years in full control, took the first steps toward relinquishing it; and Malaysia's Tunku Abdul Rahman did the hardest thing of all: he gave it up of his own accord...
...powerful nations that hold the geographic keys to Europe have at last decided that peace is the only sensible solution. The peril is that the Treaty of Moscow will cause the West to succumb to a false sense of security that could again end in disillusionment. The accord might also tempt the Eastern Europeans to move too far and too fast in seeking accommodation with the West. If that happens, Soviet leaders may decide to reassert the Brezhnev Doctrine-just as they did in Czechoslovakia two years ago. Because of the dismal failure of Soviet-style Communism to develop healthy...
...round of indirect talks. When he saw that he had the trust of both sides, there is a chance that he might have broken the log jam by expressing his own opinion. But Jarring is convinced that the two sides must find ways of living together of their own accord, and can do so if kept in touch by a determined go-between. In that role Jarring performs heroically: while headquartered on Cyprus during the 1967-68 talks, he made at least 22 trips to Jerusalem, 15 to Cairo, 14 to Amman and four each to Beirut and New York...