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EHUD OLMERT and Shulmit Aloni represent important factions in Israeli political thought, but they are not part of the governing coalition, simply members of parliament. The Rabin government is walking a middle-ground tightrope between their positions. If war doesn't disrupt the entire situation, as well it might, it will probably be possible for Rabin to continue to maintain his stance for some time, while he waits and hopes for a change in world power configurations to work to Israel's advantage. But Rabin knows that Israelis will not allow him to postpone a decision for long...
...reduced to essentials. Love being what it is, pure gambler's odds for survival put it out of contention. "I shall arrange it, so as not to depend on love...I shall live," she writes. Love lost out to survival for Hannah Senesch, too, when to love meant "to disrupt my plans, give up my independence...
...interested in the effects of sunspots, the fierce magnetic storms on the solar surface, which are often accompanied by the eruption of great flares of immensely hot gases. The streams of particles shot off during these episodes are already known to disturb the earth's magnetic field and disrupt communications. Astrophysicist Walter Orr Roberts, former director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, thinks that they also may influence weather, at least temporarily. Among other evidence, he cites an apparent link between periods of minimum activity in the sunspot cycle and recurring droughts on the east side...
...chants, which included a call to "destabilize the CIA," plainly could be heard by the participants at the Nieman session, but apparently did not disrupt the meeting...
Harvard, on the other hand, will be at full strength for this meet. "We've finally licked the injury bug," Crimson coach Bill McCurdy said yesterday. "The only thing that's bothering us now are papers and exams, which tend to disrupt practices...