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Meanwhile, the government of Amin Gemayel announced last week that "new difficulties" had prevented Lebanon's multitudinous factions from agreeing on a time and place for their national reconciliation meeting. "New" difficulties? The problems seemed as new as Cain and Abel. If Lebanon's warring sects are given a chance to disagree, they will. This time, Suleiman Franjieh, a former President (1970-76) and one of the leaders of the Syrian-backed National Salvation Front, announced that he would not attend any conference held in Lebanon, while Camille Chamoun, head of the right-wing Christian Lebanese Front, declared...
...Party called for an official inquiry into the Begin government's handling of the war. It was joined, ironically, by former Defense Minister (and now Minister Without Portfolio) Ariel Sharon, who is said to have told the Cabinet, "I'm not prepared to wear the mark of Cain or have people wave 'murderer' placards at me. I'm not prepared to take all the blame." The Knesset voted against setting up another commission of inquiry, but the protests continued...
Williams was also a moral symbolist. His earthy characters journey over a landscape that pulses with the strife-torn dualities of human nature. The duel is between God and the Devil, love and death, the flesh and the spirit, innocence and corruption, light and darkness, the eternal Cain and the eternal Abel. In the American tradition, this links Williams to three 19th century moral symbolists: Hawthorne, Poe and Melville...
...Friday, at about the time Ariel Sharon was telling an audience in Tel Aviv that "the mark of Cain" had been planted on his forehead by the week's events, several thousand Israelis attended the funeral, in the port city of Haifa, of Emil Eliyahu Greenzweig, 33, the victim of the grenade attack of the previous evening. Professor Elkana Yehuda spoke of Greenzweig, who had recently received a master's degree in philosophy and mathematics from Hebrew University, as "a symbol of love and tolerance." Yehuda expressed his hope that the current national debate would not lead to "the destruction...
...leave readers puzzled as to what the April issue will offer. Part of the problem is that the inaugural is stacked up against some of the best of a vaunted parent. The liveliest bit of journalism in the new magazine is a portrayal of Malibu Beach by James M. Cain. It was first published-in Vanity Fair...