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...Israel's small but vocal band of about 400 active feminists is making an issue of local censorship of Playgirl magazine. Steimatzky's Agency, a Tel Aviv-based book and magazine distributor, gave up censoring female nudes in Penthouse a year ago, but it still insists on blacking out the male genitals in copies of Playgirl. Explains Proprietor Yehezkel Steimatzky, 75: "Everybody is used to nude women, but nude men are new on the Israeli market, and I am afraid it would upset the status quo." The feminists have filed a suit demanding an end to Steimatzky...
Unless the Americans discipline themselves to keep busy, they will quickly fall prey to what Israeli soldiers call "Bedouinism." Dr. Amnon Shapira, a Tel Aviv physician who has served in the Sinai, describes the malaise as a pathological lethargy. "You lose all interest in everything. You don't wash, you have no energy or motivation. It's a matter of not letting the desert get the better...
...British publishers, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, and royalties and film rights could more than double that figure. However, the loot is fast becoming an embarrassment to Golda, who has long shunned any trappings of wealth. She has planned a small addition onto her modest 2½-room cottage outside Tel Aviv, says the secretary, "but other than that she has not decided what to do with the cash. I think she simply does not want to think about...
...extremists who call themselves the Red Army. In the past five years the Red Army has hijacked planes, attacked embassies and murdered dozens of innocent people in various parts of Asia, the Middle East and Europe. Its most infamous exploit was the wanton slaughter of 26 tourists at Tel Aviv's Lod Airport in June 1972. Last week in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur, five Red Army members stormed a 14-story downtown office building where more than 1,000 people were at work. Spraying gunfire around the ninth floor, the site of a U.S. passport office...
...using material he recollected from his Government days to write the article. Beecher flatly denies the insinuation. "My story," he insists, "is entirely based on interviews I conducted in the past three weeks." Indeed, Beecher's story broke shortly after a three-week trip he took to Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Cairo. He also talked, he says, to "U.S. analysts" and came away with "conclusions closely held within the American national security community...