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...Come autumn, O mother mine...
...home in the village of Majdal Shams. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan once dined with Kanj in the village. Kanj was so intent on maintaining good relations with Israel that when younger members of the community held a memorial march for Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser last autumn, the sheik publicly chastised them...
...FLEETING, final confrontation. It is the end of a heavy autumn day, probably Thursday. Sybil is walking back from the Coop, carrying all the books for two new courses, a lamp-shade and a box of ginger snaps. Coming towards her, she recognizes Stanley, an old boyfriend whom she has not seen since the summer. She looks up at him, and he stares at her, stares right through her as if they have never met. They have known each other for years, have exchanged birthday presents, have probably slept together. He looks right through her and doesn't speak...
STEP 2: If the soundings are encouraging, NATO deputy foreign ministers will meet in Brussels as early as autumn to draw up a joint NATO negotiating position. NATO representatives will then be chosen to probe further into Warsaw Pact reactions to the NATO proposals. If there appears to be a possibility for success, NATO would then invite the Communist countries to a full-dress conference, possibly in Copenhagen, that would start the bargaining process for a scale-down of the huge concentration of men and weaponry that is squared off and combat-ready in the heart of Europe...
...triumphs of last autumn, fulfilled in the January oath takings, did not happen without struggle. In South Carolina, Republican Albert Watson blatantly pitched his gubernatorial campaign to racial fears. He was defeated by Democrat John West, who pledged a "colorblind" administration and appointed a black to a top advisory post. West's promises were rooted in more than altruism: political analysts attribute his slim victory margin to some 110,000 black voters. The altered arithmetic of South Carolina politics has even touched that prototype of the traditional Southern claghorn, Senator Strom Thurmond. Thurmond recently hired the former director...