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While there was no government reaction in Jerusalem, Israeli officials tended to dismiss the report as simply "good public relations," and restated their position that no peace is possible unless the Egyptians negotiate directly with them. Many observers believe that it was the May 1967 withdrawal of U.N. troops from Sinai and Gaza at Nasser's request that led to the war, but the question of U.N. troops is now only one of the problems to be dealt with in any peace negotiations. And before the troops return, the U.N. would certainly seek assurances that they would...
...French are rarely consistent, but they are usually logical-in their fashion. From the lycée onward, millions of Frenchmen are exposed to the classic symmetrical syllogisms of cartesian logic; as a result, a Frenchman tends to dismiss whatever he disagrees with not because it is intrinsically wrong but because it seems wrongly reasoned. "C'est pas logique."-roughly, "No one in his right mind would think like that"-is a favorite saying. To the vast numbers of middle-aged who feared continued social upheavals, to the little old ladies in black who considered the old ways best...
...best seller, and sells it to Paramount which hires a fashionable director for a small fortune to make the movie. It's a sure-fire success formula--not exactly a sublime collaboration of great artists, let alone unusually talented craftsmen. Rosemary's Baby, then, would be easy to dismiss as a slack and inadequate thriller were it not for everyone's desire to take Polanski seriously as an auteur...
...fall made a number of reforms in their way of life, including the right to wear civilian dress. Although other Roman Catholic orders have modified or dropped their habits without any trouble, none of the changes seemed to please Los Angeles' James Francis Cardinal Mclntyre. He threatened to dismiss the sisters from their teaching posts in parochial schools of his archdiocese. The nuns promptly appealed to the Vatican, which appointed a special four-member commission to investigate...
...fired was City Manager Joseph A. DeGuglilmo '29 dismissed last January by five members of the City Council, led by Edward A. Crane. DeGuglielmo left the manager's office last January in the same way he entered it two years before--in a bitter battle in the Council. In 1966, DeGuglielmo, a former mayor of the City, rounded up five votes on the council to dismiss John J. Curry '19, who, with the close counsel of Crane, had served as manager for 13 years. During the next two years, the council minority led by Crane sniped away at DeGuglielmo...