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Thus, in his most defiant manner, Begin declared last week that Ronald Reagan's peace plan for the Middle East was "stillborn." Never mind that the Reagan proposals had been hailed by a wide range of governments and foreign policy experts and even many U.S. Jewish organizations as a bold and promising initiative. Or that the plan was taken seriously by the 20 Arab nations holding a summit last week in Fez, Morocco. To the proud and stubborn Israeli leader, whose cooperation in any Middle East peace process would be essential, the whole idea of the plan was anathema...
...Unknown Soldier, Warsaw residents had already begun to rebuild their cross. While government delegations laid wreaths to the solemn beat of drums, several hundred people gathered around the new cross, praying, flashing V signs and singing their own modified version of the national anthem. It includes such defiant lines as "Lead us Walesa, from the coast to Silesia/ Push on to victory, Polish Solidarity." The police removed the cross the next three days...
That determined attitude may still be a way of uniting the individualistic and defiant islanders after all. They may even get around to having that party celebrating the coming of the British and the ending of the fighting. Promises Magistrate Harold Bennett, 65, who had retired after 36 years on the job only two days before the Argentine invasion and who is now back on his old job: "The Falklands are going to have their 150th anniversary next January...
Like them, most of the crowd seemed more purposeful than defiant. Katherine Wedel, 17, left a New York hospital in her sick-bed smock to join the rally. "To me," she said, "it's important to be here because the money spent on bombs could be spent on finding a cure for Addison's disease," for which Wedel is being treated. Some placards were flip. One beery young man carried a sign that said DON'T BOMB US, WE'RE ALREADY BOMBED and on another youth's poster was the request REAGAN-GIVE...
...clubs, they say, are resurgent, but most of the College would have trouble listing half of them by name. And Fox, Fly, Owl, Spee and their kindred are given over now more to fraternity-style carousing and less to gentility (though tuxedos remain de rigger). The preppie movement-the defiant wearing of madras and espadrilles-amounted to not so much in the way of attitudes, and the St. Grottlesex tribe remains easily ignoble. What was once the Harvard culture is now a Harvard subculture, and a vaguely ridiculous one at that...