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...Aqaba. His price: "acceptable" Israeli compensation to the 1.3 million Palestine refugees, plus a token "border adjustment" that would return a small sliver of Israeli desert to Arab sovereignty. The border adjustment is a question of repairing Arab honor and is relatively unimportant?though Israel may be reluctant to cede even a splinter of its land. The real key to an eventual political accommodation?after the present tensions abate?lies in finding a solution to the refugee problem...
...Jonathan Swift. But the humorists who dwell on death and disaster today lean too often toward the narcissistic, reflecting images of themselves as helpless heroes in a world they can neither take nor leave. Their less lugubrious colleagues, on the other hand, have been all too willing to cede the comic to the journalists and to allow the commercial to override the classic. In the end, they have left a society almost without true humorists, making it vulnerable and vain, like a great man without a sense of humor...
...Pope. Cavalier talk it was, too, for the parlor of an absent Foreign Minister. As Il Borghese played it, La Pira had gaily dismissed Communism as "a peril that no longer exists." President Johnson, he told the editor with a mystic's assurance, "will have to cede and make peace [in Viet Nam] because American financiers want it." Dean Rusk? "He doesn't know anything." Italian Premier Aldo Moro? "There's something about him I don't like." Pope Paul? "I have faith in him," allowed the Saint, "even if he sometimes stops, seesaws and bogs...
Under the bill, the state could cede as many as 11 of the Yard's 12 acres to the feral government, which will run the Library. The state could sell to the Library Corporation the remaining one acre and any other land that is unneeded for the actual construction of the Kennedy Memorial...
...state commission appointed to recommend a Massachusetts memorial to President Kennedy recentlyg suggested that the state cede six acres of the 12-acre Bennett St. MBTA Yards, across Boylston St. from Eliot House, to the federal government. The six acres would house the buildings directly connected with the library...