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...demilitarization could be guaranteed by a permanent United Nations force-one that could be withdrawn only by the Security Council. With its veto power, the U.S. could thus assure Israel that the force could never be taken away without American assent. A similar U.N. force could be established at Sharm el Sheikh, a strategic point overlooking the Straits of Tiran, so that Egypt could never again threaten Israeli access...
Hall said last night that the windows were purchased from DeVac Co. of Minneapolis before receipt of the commission's assent. He ordered the windows "in haste to get the project off the ground at a time of most convenience." He said that installation could have been completed before students returned last January after the Christmas break...
...turned out that they had been had. Preoccupied with getting the tapes for their committee, they did not see the implications of their assent. Nor did Nixon and his aides help them to. As Baker now says, that assent was not intended to underwrite the President's refusal to abide by the appellate court's decision and to order Cox out of the arena. Cox, they felt, had "a different set of problems than we have," and, incredibly, they felt that Nixon was simply making an overture to them concerning their desires for the tapes and that this...
...would seem that, in all cases, one who can understand and assent to this would have the intellect to understand simple sin. It would not be unreasonable, there fore, that he should go to confession before Holy Communion...
...crucial gestures mean diametrically opposite things in the two cultures. When Arabs shake their heads from side to side, they are saying yes instead of no. Moreover, when Arabs mean no, they move the head upward (and click with the tongue), seeming, to Western eyes, to nod assent. Apparently, however, most foreigners find it easy to switch to the Arab system. Barakat relates the story of an English teacher in the Middle East whose wife had remained behind in England. When one of his Arab students left for a trip to England, the teacher suggested that the young man look...