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Walter Sullivan suggested large parties held at local schools as an alternative to the door-to-door collections. Although skeptical that a trick or treating han could be enforced. School Committee member Sarait Mac Berman also gave the school parties as an alternative "because it is both positive and productive...
...vote did not accurately reflect the sense of anguish that prevailed in the country. Protest meetings were held all week, starting with a demonstration at the Prime Minister's residence in Jerusalem and ending with a mass rally attended by 350,000 people in Tel Aviv. Energy Minister Yitzhak Berman resigned because of Begin's failure to appoint a full-scale commission of inquiry. So did Menachem Milson, the civil administrator of the West Bank who had been appointed by Sharon. And so did Yoav Gelber, a historian who had been serving on a commission to investigate the 1933 murder...
...with the campaign in Lebanon, Begin began to push his luck. Now, indirect involvement in the slaughter of Palestinians may suffice to topple the government. Indeed, Begin's Energy Minister Yitzhak Berman has already handed in his resignation. Other members of the cabinet--including Deputy Foreign Minister Yehuda Ben-Meir and Education Minister Zvulun Hammer--are reportedly thinking of quitting. And in Parliament, the Prime Minister's shaky coalition would have much trouble surviving a no-confidence vote. So Begin...
...effort so far has paid off in impressive domestic support. Even leaders of the American Jewish community, who usually are quick to take issue with any Washington move that appears to dilute American backing for Israel, seem to have been partly disarmed, at least in public. Asserted Julius Berman, chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations: "There are some very positive statements in there." He specified Reagan's call for "hard, fair and direct negotiating between the parties" and his "lack of support for an independent Palestinian state." Berman's criticisms were surprisingly mild...
...mark four consecutive times. The peak of 138 million shares on Thursday shattered the one-day record of 132.7 million that had been set only eight days earlier. Average daily volume before the current spree had been only 52.3 million shares. Says Donald Iseman, a partner in the Neuberger & Berman investment firm and a stock trader for 36 years: "I remember when volume was 1 million shares on a good day. If anyone had said that we would some day do 100 million shares, I think that he would have been institutionalized...