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...visual, the principal object of attention was Israel. Syria claimed Israeli artillery fire had halted work on the Arab project to divert the headwaters of the Jordan, called for a unified Arab air strike to silence Israel's guns. Still angry about West Germany's recognition last month of Israel, Syria urged joint 'economic sanctions against the Bonn government, raised again the proposal that all members of the Arab League establish relations with East Germany instead. The Syrian delegate even demanded that Tunisia, whose President, Habib Bourguiba, had recommended negotiations instead of war with Israel, be expelled...
...consulate, carrying a coffin covered with salt. Realizing that the U.S. was vulnerable under international law, Presidents Kennedy and Johnson pressed hard for a solution. Under the new agreement-not a formal treaty -the U.S. will spend $5,000,000 to build a 13-mile drainage canal that will divert the salty water from the Wellton-Mohawk project into the Colorado River at a point safely below the Mexican Dam. If pollution remains dangerously high at the end of five years, the U.S. and Mexico will get together to figure out what else...
...Vietnamese and Americans a far bloodier struggle than the one in which they are now engaged, but a new drawn-out Korea would threaten the whole with nuclear holocaust. At home Americans would have to shelve indefinitely the issues of poverty, unemployment, and civil rights, in order to divert their creative energies to the destructiveness...
...Black Muslims. Chairman Willis, clearly embarrassed, directed his staff to give the idea a "thorough look-see." The odds are against Weltner. Though HUAC, in the late 1930's, investigated the American Nazi Bund, it is doubtful that Willis and the majority be controls will permit the Committee to divert again its attention from the left...
These children would be those who have not yet been in trouble with the police, but who may soon join a gang. PBH workers will try to divert these youngsters' energies from gangs and vandalism to athletics and schoolwork...