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...later, in the October War, TIME reported on the surprise attack by Egypt and Syria and Isreal's resounding comeback. Time also devoted a number of cover stories to the search for peace in the Middle East, including Prime Minister Golda Meir's last-minute steps to avert full scale war in 1969 and the momentus summit between Isreal's Menachem Begin and Egypt's Anwar Sadat in 1977. Only 5 weeks ago a TIME cover story examined Isreal today and its economic and political future. This week Begin's "defensive" strike against Iraq...
...falls "within the First Amendment guarantee," as do political speech and ideological speech, and "nudity alone" cannot strip away this "mantle." Noted the court: "The zoning power is not infinite and unchallengeable." Nor was the court impressed with Mount Ephraim's justification for the ban-that it would avert parking problems and the need for additional police protection-since the town allowed a variety of other commercial enterprises. The ordinance was overly broad, said the court, in that it banned all forms of live entertainment but failed to show how such entertainment posed special problems to the community...
Though the roof replacement may avert threats posed by leaks in Widener for many years, the natural aging process eats away at some books within--8 million frames of microfilm of pages of books in poor condition were prepared recently. And they have also begun to utilize "deep freeze" machines to preserve books and exterminate pesty and destructive bugs...
...Suez Canal into the eastern Mediterranean. The carrier Forrestal was also in the area, with a task force that included 1,500 U.S. Marines. The State Department instructed American embassy employees in Beirut to send their dependents home, and advised other Americans to leave. Calling U.S. diplomatic efforts to avert a conflict "a long shot," Secretary of State Alexander Haig warned gloomily: "Time is running...
...connection, U.S. congressmen have organized opposition to the Garcia Meza regime. Sen. Dennis De Concinni (R-Ariz.), one of the most vocal opponents, contends that cocaine elites actually prop up the government, referring to an alleged $70 million emergency grant given by those involved in the illicit trade to avert an impending economic crisis. De Concinni and others also demanded that the most blatant drug traders be removed from the government, a condition that Garcia Meza met last month by dismissing Colonels Arce Gomez and Coca. The Bolivian government propbably will continue to comply with U.S. demands in hopes...