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Begin was faced with a reminder last week that his most formidable opposition-the Labor Party-may be down but is not quite out. About 1.4 million Israelis who belong to Histadrut, the giant trade union federation, went to the polls to vote for 1,501 delegates to the next convention. The Labor Party, which has dominated Histadrut since pioneering days, kept control with 56.6% of the vote. This ensures Labor's continued control of a mammoth conglomerate of unions, insurance and pension plans, companies and even banks that controls nearly 25% of Israel's economic production...
...outskirts of Madrid that gained infamy during the civil war when Republican forces shot hundreds of Nationalist prisoners there, the local voting monitor politely ushered a trooper of the still feared Civil Guard out of the schoolroom polling station. "He has a gun, and he does not belong here," said one of the party observers behind...
...Trustman recollects that Lowell House was "significantly homosexual and History and Lit." Eliot House, as Brody remembers it, was the home of the "white shoes," which are roughly the equivalent of today's Lacoste T-shirts. He always felt Eliot was a place in which he didn't quite belong, finding the cocktail parties and dinners pretentious, the attempt "to inculcate gentlemanly values" in Eliot residents false and the quasi-opulent living rather ridiculous. But he remembers rationalizing "they offered us a suite with five private rooms and a living room for $95 each a semester. So we took...
...fear that things will grow worse for them under a Likud government. Says Mayor Elias Freij of Bethlehem: "With the election of Begin, the whole world can see the real face of Israel. It is expansionist, and it wants [all the West Bank] even though it doesn't belong to the Jews...
...Abdullah invaded this country from Jordan, he killed our people, destroyed our synagogues and he occupied part of it. Then in the early '50s he annexed it. Nobody recognized that annexation but Britain and Pakistan. The U.S. never recognized it. So give what back? It doesn't belong to them...