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...Rogers' two-day visit, Israel's Foreign Ministry proposed that instead of engaging in lengthy conferences, the Secretary tour such disputed borders as the Golan Heights and the Jordan River's West Bank. Since it is his first visit, suggested the Israelis, Rogers might better comprehend their concern over secure borders if he saw those borders himself. The U.S. rejected this idea. An American embassy spokesman in Tel Aviv explained that what Rogers really wanted to do was to talk...
...that its parent group guarantee all loans made to state medical students. Twenty Michigan communities have answered the original letter, and two-Niles and Muskegon -have sent representatives to Wayne State for student interviews. About 100 students have declared themselves available. Their interest in the program is easy to comprehend. Since 1966, total federal aid to Wayne State medical students has dropped from $365,000 to $81,400. Tuition for state residents, which was only $750 five years ago, has increased to $1,150-and even that much is less than half the cost at many private universities...
Initially, some brain researchers believed that memories were stored in electrical impulses. But scientists could not comprehend how a cranial electrical system, however complex its interconnections, could accommodate the estimated million billion pieces of information that a single brain collects in a lifetime...
This concurs with the Arabs' own needs. Affected by centuries of tribal infighting and repressive philosophic traditions, they are 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...
...impossible for us to comprehend how it is possible to wage a genuine liberation struggle that will move and mobilize the Greek people if its unfettered sovereignty will not be secured in the hour of victory," he continued. "And certainly the return of Constantine-the par excellence guardian of the American Pentagon and of the powers of occupation of our country-without the consent of the Greek people, is in compatible with the liberation struggle...