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...daily Figaro: "Our first idea was not to kill Admiral Carrero Blanco, but to kidnap him and exchange him for our political prisoners.* El Caudillo doesn't interest us any longer. An attempt against him would have made sense 30 years ago. We wanted now to demolish the edifice provided for the succession, and I think we succeeded...
...fanciful. For example, when noting the enormous concentration of Egyptian tanks and troops on the east bank of the Suez Canal, one Israeli officer remarked: "I'm not sure that tactically we didn't want them to come across, since our ultimate objective is to demolish their military machine." Yet by the end of the week, that development was far off. In Sinai, the Israelis had still to deliver a victorious counterattack...
...when I realized that I lacked the answer, and that I had grown up trained to believe the wrong one. My parents made a persuasive model for the idea that men were stronger than women, hence better. My father had power over my mother economically, intellectually, etc. He could demolish her verbally; their arguments ran like a Thurber parody of The Battle Between the Sexes. He could think more precisely and analytically than she could. His infallible logic made her look clumsy and irrational, and she failed ever to muster as clean a logic when pitted against him. He would...
...TIMES are changing, at least to alumni who returned to Cambridge this week: Harvard has merged with Radcliffe and women are living in the Yard, bulldozers are waiting to demolish Hunt Hall and the drillers are planning an assault on land which lies in the shadows of Widener. But all is not lost--Harvard's traditional calendar remains...
...People must realize that the Israeli attack on the Arabs is justified by the fact that one of the Arabs' major goals is to demolish Israel. How can a country strive to survive without some means of counterattack? After all, the Arabs attacked Israel to begin with. Should such a tiny country not fight back...