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Nasser's ambitions are becoming clearer. Surrounding Israel on two sides, he would like to close the circle by creating a sort of provisional Palestine regime in the area now part of Jordan. The Palestine refugee movement, if noisy, has been ineffectual since the Arabs were beaten by Israel in 1949. Nasser wants to purge it of discredited oldtimers and replace them with a group of young militants who would stir up trouble as the rebel F.L.N. leaders do for Algeria. They would be backed by Cairo and run from Cairo. King Hussein was thus in for another showdown...
...with a jazz combo. Eaton has set John Donne's sonnets to music, launched a three-hour opera based on Sophocles' Trachiniae and Seneca's Hercules Oetaeus. "I hated this oriental city the first month," says he. "But an eclectic city has made the inner voices clearer. I've narrowed down to composing, and found myself...
...final decision, was rocked by indecision: a longtime opponent of capital punishment, Brown, for eight years California's attorney general, nevertheless believed Chessman to be guilty, unrepentant and undeserving of clemency. Observed Chessman shrewdly at a press conference: The issue of capital punishment would be so much clearer if he were dead...
Juneau lay under a woolly fog that rolled in off the Gastineau Channel, and airplanes carrying Alaska legislators probed in frustrating circles over the capital's airport. Some lawmakers turned to dog sled and Coast Guard cutter, others waited restlessly in clearer areas until the fog lifted, but everybody was on hand last week when the new state's first legislature was gaveled into its second session. Fortuitously, a "Capital-Site Steering Committee" came around with petitions bearing the signatures of 13,000 Alaskans who want the capital moved from fog-plagued Juneau westward to the Fairbanks-Anchorage...
...depth of the crisis became clearer, Parisians began to gather gravely at the newsstands in the winter sunshine. But there was no trouble. Deputy Jean-Marie Le Pen, onetime paratrooper and Poujadist tough boy, called upon Paris students to strike in support of the insurgents, but he was ignored by the students and picked up by the police...