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Most Jewish leaders, however, sought to turn Jimmy Carter around-not Begin. Meeting with 53 Jewish leaders at the White House on July 6, Carter failed to convince his visitors that Israel could count on his complete support in a crunch. That made Begin look still better to many U.S. Jews. Says Robert Cohn: "He's provided the kind of firmness Israel needed when the Administration was putting pressure...
...INTRODUCTION to The Crowned Cannibals, E. L. Doctorow suggests that Baraheni's experiences point to a new kind of poetry, designed for a world where human interaction has been reduced through technological advances to the rawest uses of power, to the crunch of bones and the smell of burning flesh. The United States has helped the Shah build up an apparatus of repression under which people can be interrogated without recourse to any legal process, freeing the Shah to spend his country's wealth without questions from the population...
...Iran. Anyone who has read a newspaper in the past three years will recognize real-world dilemmas: a politically volatile Middle East, with Saudi Arabia and Iran at loggerheads over oil prices; New York's banks hungering for Arab oil revenues to fend off a looming liquidity crunch; a spreading Middle Eastern arms race, with the U.S. shipping ultramodern weaponry to all takers in a frenetic struggle to retain influence and hold the Soviets at arm's length. The villain is the Shah of Iran, who appears as a double-dealing megalomaniac bent on re-establishing the Persian...
...Colonial Williamsburg hotels are now greeted by discreetly worded appeals for donations; the foundation hopes to receive about 1,000 gifts this year-double the 1976 total. But even if these methods succeed in closing the 1977 budget gap, a longer-range worry threatens: the possibility that an energy crunch and rising fuel costs will both push foundation expenses still higher and persuade still more potential visitors to stay home...
Education experts, like Senator Edward Brooke (R., Mass.), ranking minority member on the HEW-Labor subcommittee on appropriations, fear that the money crunch will force schools to "mainstream" ill-prepared students into regular classrooms rather than putting them in small special classes. This could prompt a parental backlash. Says Professor Frances Connor, chairman of the special education department of Columbia University's Teachers College: "If you had a child who was just about at the entry level for college, and you felt that his needs were not being met because the handicapped children required a lot of the teacher...