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...this type of parochial attitude on the part of Israel's religious authorities, fortified by the reluctance of Reform and Conservative officials to assert their rights, that is largely responsible for the poor showing of Progressive Judaism in Israel and the consequent polarization of the Jewish population between the Orthodox and secular camps...
Toughness & Arrogance. The plan to kill Park was Premier Kim's own idea, as in all likelihood was the order to seize the Pueblo. A Stalinist who has kept North Korea in a state of permanent purge, Kim has acted In recent years to assert North Korea's independence, slipping out of China's orbit and edging closer to Russia. To show that independence, North Korea became the first Communist country to offer to send troops to North Viet Nam to aid Ho Chi Minh; Ho declined, except for accepting some 50 North Korean pilot instructors...
Jaspers sees Germany today as morally adrift in prosperity, pretty much as it was morally adrift in poverty in 1931, when he warned of the approaching collapse of the Weimar Republic in Man in the Modern Age. Does he now foresee a neo-Nazi takeover? Hardly. But he does assert that the Germans are still making the same kind of peculiarly German mistake: looking for a system so perfect that the individual citizen will be spared the effort of trying to be good...
Shedding the never-too-convincing guise of folksy preacher and avuncular counselor, he appeared before the TV cameras in the role he knows best-that of the combative, spontaneous, self-assured politician. At the same time Lyndon Johnson came across as an executive ready and willing at last to assert his leadership...
...small handful of Wednesday's demonstrators sought a Berkeley-like confrontation with the bogey men they are convinced run Harvard. But does President Pusey really confuse this group with the vast majority of the demonstrators who were expressing their personal anguish and frustration over the Vietnam War? To assert that students are misrepresenting the issues of the Mallinckrodt demonstration is to ignore the depth of their concern about the war's incursions on campus. It is Harvard's business-as-usual approach to the war which is at issue here. The Administration has refused to face this issue...