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...bygone era when a more confident U.S. could act with a free hand in Latin America. Says David McCullough, author of The Path Between the Seas, a history of the canal: "It is the physical expression of a boundless confidence, one which believed tomorrow will be better. If an archaeologist were to come across only the locks and the cuts in that jungle, his conclusion would be: 'My God, what a civilization it must have been to build this!' " Many people, adds McCullough, feel that by relinquishing the canal "we are saying something profound about ourselves, that we have reached...
More important, Arab Leader Holm denounces the mission of both men-the soldier as well as the archaeologist-as "a rape of our heritage." But nobody pays much attention to what Holm says after he emerges as an opportunist who is only using the colonialist issue to unite the desert tribes in his own drive for power. This is a pity. In view of some of the tacky beach-front resorts that have since been built with foreign money along the Moroccan coast, one cannot help thinking that the fellow really had a point there...
...Archaeologists generally agree that writing first appeared in Mesopotamia around 3100 B.C. in the form of an elaborate system of symbols that were probably used for keeping temple records. But where did the ancients get the idea for their epochal invention? A University of Texas archaeologist may have at last provided the answer. Denise Schmandt-Besserat has found evidence that writing evolved from a much older record-keeping system that is still used in the Middle East. If her theory is correct, it pushes the roots of writing back at least 5,000 years...
Solution Wanted. But Begin is more interested in wooing Archaeologist-General Yigael Yadin's Democratic Movement for Change, which won 15 seats at the expense of the Labor alignment. Yadin, who wants the Foreign Minister's portfolio that Begin offered to Moshe Dayan (TIME, June 6), last week stressed that serious ideological differences still separate the D.M.C. and Likud: "They say there should be Israeli sovereignty between the sea and the River Jordan, and we say there should be territorial compromise for peace. The question is: What will happen within the next year or two?" On the West...
James Pritchard. L.H.D.. biblical archaeologist...