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...fedayeen draw their main strength from the 1.3 million Palestinian refugees, and have the political power to endanger any peace agreement that does not include an offer that the refugees would consider, finally, just. The Palestinians are among the bitterest people in the world, and with reason. In the wake of the 1948 war, they scattered throughout the Arab lands. Educated, intelligent, some of them staff the ranks of governments and the faculties of Arab universities. But the majority were herded into squalid camps, fed by the United Nations on 7¢ a day and used as pawns by Arab politicians...
...gone out of his way to appease the opposition party. He stopped off in Independence, Mo., to present Harry Truman with his old White House piano for the Truman Library. Both men shook hands and smiled as if they could not remember that they had traded some of the bitterest personal exchanges in modern American politics.* When Truman, now 84, demurred at a suggestion that he try the old Steinwav, Nixon sat down and affably pounded out the Missouri Waltz in the key of G. Later, in Southern California, Nixon considered sites for his own library, spending the weekend...
...fronts. South Dakota's George McGovern, one of the Senate's most steadfast antiwar spokesmen, called the ABM decision, "a blunder comparable to the decision to escalate the war in Viet Nam in 1965." In a speech planned for delivery this week, McGovern aimed one of the bitterest attacks on the war heard since the 1968 election: "We hear that the war is going well; the enemy is tiring; if only we persist in the present course, there will be victory." Continued McGovern: "The new Commander in Chief must grasp what his predecessor learned to his sorrow-that...
...single-handedly defeated one of the earliest urban renewal plans for the area because of its promise of massive destruction of existingu buildings and massive dislocation of existing populations. Presently he finds his bitterest enemy in the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority for whom the best building that can be constructed in the city is one that generates the greatest increase in the tax base: twenty-story, high-income high-rises. At the same time he has been instrumental in championing the equally controversial Wellington - Harrington Plan, which would make federal monies available in the form of long-term, low-interest loans...
...world's largest securities market, with damaging consequences for brokerage firms and investors alike. "I have no doubt," he said, "that the securities markets as we know them today would cease to exist." The government and Wall Street thus reached a point of tense confrontation in the bitterest clash since the Pecora investigation in the early...