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...division amoung the Israeli peopl on the issue has alwasy been profound, and is now worsened both by the occupation of Lebanon and the comparative security Israel enjoys as a result of the above-described combination of factors. The settlement policy is accelerating this integration of the West Bank into Israel. Already 90 percent of West Bank imports come from Israel, which in turn takes two-thirds of all West Bank Exports. The widely-quoted statistics of a higher Arab birth case are insufficient to warrent fears that Israel could have an Arab majority sometimes after annexation; but if annexation...
...quality of his daily, "micro" relations with America's Congressmen and Senators escape his notice. At first, says Barone, he was a little-known figure on Capitol Hill. But as his book--with its circulation of about 50,000--has begun to become quite well-known in Washington, especially amoung journalists, he finds "they all treat me very nicely." The politicians didn't need an almanac to teach them that lesson...
...overcome such "useless fears," Wolpe advocates a method called "systematic desensitization" or, less technically, "graduated calming." The essense of the procedure is to have a deeply relaxed patient imagine a slightly fearful object of situation for a few seconds at a time. With each repetition, the amoung of fear lessens, finally dropping to zero. Then successively more fearful images are treated in the same way, until even the most fearful lose their fear-arousing power...
...ship of Dominican friars bound for missionary work in 17th century Japan. The little band of Catholics found the Japanese less than hospitable, and Ruiz, refusing to denounce his religion, was burned at the stake with his newly found companions. He might have been little more than one amoung countless church martyrs except that Pope John Paul II will be arriving in the Philippines in early February to make Ruiz the first man beatified outside of the Vatican...
Lobbying our legislators and rule-making agencies is another effective means of molding public policy. It has been estimated that special interest groups spend $1 billion annually hiring Washington lobbyists, whose job is to influence the Congress and federal agencies. The exact dollar amoung is unclear because the present lobbying disclosure law is, as Common Cause puts it, "more loophole than...