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Adamant Rejection. In the month since the U.N.'s ill-named Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee approved a draft linking Zionism and racism (TIME, Oct. 27), the U.S. and its Western European allies had lobbied furiously to get the impending vote postponed if not quashed. But Arab lobbying won in the end. The resolution passed easily, 72-35, with 32 abstentions. Two other resolutions directed against Israel were approved by much wider margins. One creates a 20-member committee to try to set up in what is now Israel the sort of "democratic secular state" the Palestine Liberation Organization...
...almost certain to tip the balance of the court even further away from the postwar liberalism that Douglas (and the late Hugo Black) came to symbolize. For his part, Douglas aims to continue to speak out, in books if not from the bench. He has already completed the first draft of his memoirs of his years on the court, and is now editing and updating them...
Clumsy Giant. Teotihuacanos used neither metal, the wheel nor draft animals. How they kept records remains a mystery; researchers have thus far found no conclusive evidence that they had a written language. But there is ample evidence that the ancient city enjoyed considerable prestige. A political and religious center dug up near Guatemala City shows what Pennsylvania State University Archaeologist William Sanders considers "a slavish imitation of Teotihuacan style." Artifacts unearthed in Belize, 700 miles away, show a similar influence...
Hopefully at that time the Senate will recognize the bill's incorrigible nature and vote to scrap it in its entirety and draft another. So far, however, only a few newspaper editors and civil liberties agencies have expressed outrage at the bill, but the general public has applied little pressure against the bill. It is impossible to predict just what will happen once the bill gets on the floor. But, there is a good chance that the bill's supporters will insist that some of the repressive measures of S.1 find their way into whatever crime bill the Congress eventually...
Moonchildren. Michael Weller's play about eight students sharing an apartment in the 60's is of course dated--peace marches and draft-dodging seem historical curiosities, almost archaicisms, by now. The play's chief impact, however, was never political; it derived instead from the emotional interaction between its characters, whose apparent friendship yields eventually to a sense of isolation and despair. Unfortunately, the Dunster House Drama Society's production of Moonchildren never fully creates the illusion of an initial community of friends, so the dissolution of that community is less heart-rending than it should be. Nevertheless, this production...