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...unable to sustain the revolt they launched because they do not comprehend the extent of their power and virtue. Lawrence serves as their catalyst; recognizing British colonial interests, he dares Prince Feisal to take a battle initiative on his own, without the Allied artillery and 'discipline' which could blunt the Arab guerrillas' effectiveness. With the mercenary Howeitat tribe, Lawrence crosses the Nehfu Desert to take the Gulf of Aqaba. (This is, of course, a convenient fiction; Aqaba was taken only after the destruction of the Hejaz railway...
...right out and deny it. The Vatican is understandably unhappy, and for two months the sounds of its displeasure have thundered around Kűng's head; he has been under attack from the hierarchies of Germany, Italy and France. This week, with the American publication of his blunt book Infallible? An Inquiry (Doubleday; 262 pages; $5.95), English-speaking audiences will get a chance to see what the fuss is all about...
...parallel thrust by 20,000 ARVN troops into Cambodia-mainly as an opportunity to reap some short-term gains. One important objective was to shore up the embattled regime in Cambodia by taking further pressure off the Cambodian army to the south. Another was to blunt Communist capability to wage offensives in South Viet Nam, particularly any attack that might upset two approaching presidential elections: Nguyen Van Thieu's in October and Richard Nixon's in November...
...upper-class black with a $45,000 salary, Young neither shunned blunt talk when addressing white banquets nor donned a dashiki to convince his fellow blacks that he had soul. He was always an individual, difficult to classify. Young's special strength, notes a black journalist, was that "he was urbane enough to talk with the fat cats downtown and hip enough to talk with the tough cats uptown and he never seemed out of place doing either." Indeed, even some of the most bitter black spokesmen came to warmly appreciate Young. When informed of his death, Poet...
...School. On the especially touchy question of school busing, the California Supreme Court has issued an ingenious opinion that may well tempt other state courts. In an indirect effort to blunt school integration, California, like many states and communities, had passed a law that banned busing of children without a parent's consent. With equal indirection, the California court upheld the busing consent regulation -but warned that school boards may, without parental agreement, still assign children to distant schools in order to achieve integration. Thus a child is no longer required to take the school bus in California...