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Eliav, former secretary-general of the Israeli Labour Party and later chairman of the "Sheli" or peace movement, states his solution to the Palestinian question in simple terms: "I am for halfing the loaf," he says. "We have all the loaf now--we should give the Palestinians their land and let them determine what they want, once they have recognized the state of Israel and agreed to live side by side...
...chairman of the History Department, Wallace T. MacCaffrey, blamed the dearth of course offerings on circumstances. A number of big-shot professors are on leave this year and the department has been unable to find "qualified" teachers to fill the department's gaps, he said. He did not mention, however, the circumstances with which Harvard upperclassmen are sadly familiar--the University's neglect of its students' educations. This is not the first time history students have been left stranded; a few years ago European history concentrators found themselves in the same bind as this year's American history students...
...deliberations, reports TIME Correspondent Erik Amfitheatrof, the commission quickly settled on a short list of candidates. The most controversial was Canada's forceful Anglican Primate Edward Scott, 60, who is also chairman of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches. But in the end, the commission decided Anglicanism was not ready to pick a non-Briton and thus "do a Wojtyla" (that is, echo Rome's election of a non-Italian as Pope...
Last week, the day before Moscow's second International Book Fair, Boris Stukalin, chairman of the Soviet state publishing committee, proclaimed that the fair offered "fresh evidence of the . . . implementation of the Helsinki accords ... and the Soviet Union's constant efforts to deepen mutual understanding...
...story. There Western publishers dreamed of reaching millions of new readers with millions of old rubles. Said Robert Baensch, vice president of Harper & Row: "We're planting the seeds, looking for a big future market." But as fast as the seeds were planted, they were uprooted. Robert Bernstein, chairman of Random House and an outspoken advocate of human rights, was not even allowed in the country. And at the fair itself, inspectors ransacked exhibitions and carted off more than 50 books, most of them American. Some of the proscribed works had been put there as a challenge...