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...Sovietologist born in Riga, "and they are terribly disturbed when they see that some soldiers are undisciplined and sloppy. Dirt in the street bothers them as does the brusque, discourteous manner of some of our people. Their puritanism is dealt a blow when they go to a Tel Aviv movie and see naked women on the screen." Many complain about the relatively high price of tickets for operas, concerts and plays (rarely more than $3 for first-rate Moscow performances), and about the fact that music teachers actually charge fees...
...trip also tested Muskie's style and stamina. He arrived in Tel Aviv at dawn, bleary-eyed after flying all night. Yet he gracefully handled an airport press conference that he had not expected. At Hebrew University in Jerusalem, facing aggressive questioning by students, he coolly avoided saying anything that could possibly affect the delicate negotiations toward peace in the Middle East. Accused of being a latecomer in opposing the war in Viet Nam, Muskie candidly conceded that he was "guilty of misunderstanding" the situation in the early 1950s, but argued that "if your specification for public office...
...disturbance. Its ordinarily staid and loyal subscribers, protesting the premiere in Israel of Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-tone Violin Concerto, had tried to get rid of their subscription tickets in droves. Many of those who actually did show up at the performance later walked out of Tel Aviv's Mann Auditorium in mid-concert...
...though its jagged musical qualities are rather daring by Israeli standards. The players were happy to get away from the old warhorses, but the management was troubled, especially when empty seats-as rare for the I.P.O. as snow in Jaffa-began showing up in Haifa, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv...
...Sheikh the beginnings of another tourist mecca are already in place. For $14 a night one can get an air-conditioned room in an 80-bed motel, watch movies and go scuba diving. Already along another road to Sharm el Sheikh through the Mitla Pass, holidaymakers from Tel Aviv can take a five-day "See the Sinai Battlefields" tour for $98.60. Egged, Israels' biggest bus line, is now planning a 300-bed motel in Sinai at a cost of $500,000. "Why not?" asks an Egged spokesman. "The government has agreed to a 49-year lease...