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...foreign currency. Underlying all this activity is Israel's worried awareness that the Arabs' political influence in the West is based largely on oil. "With a major oil facility," says one Israeli pipeline executive, "the Western powers will think twice before they let Israel go down the drain...
...Freshman Council is considering several substitutes for Jubilee. One possibility is a picnic at Warren Island in Boston Harbor-a traditional part of past Jubilee weekends. The council also will not hire a big-name band-a major financial drain in the past...
Drinking and Drifting. Alcohol's drain on productivity has become especially dismaying to the party hierarchy-because of growing signs of sluggishness in the Soviet economy. Thus, while past antidrinking crusades have suffered from complacency and lack of enforcement, this time officials really seem to mean business. Last week the Soviet Trade Union Council ordered a crackdown on workers who "drink, loaf or drift." The council recommended that recalcitrant members be expelled and thereby deprived of sick leave and pension benefits...
Lapidary Density. Drop by drop, like blood from a carcass, the repetitions drain meanings from the emotions. Then, on the left, the lover holds his dying girl, but "I don't hear you," she whispers, "I don't feel you. I am"-her last words-"all alone." To the right, in speech and action interwoven with the mirror scene, the terrified woman is almost out the door as her man lies dying. But then-"I know you are here," he says, "I hear you. I feel you close. I am not alone." The scene is a bravura display...
...products and policies before they harm man and nature. At all levels, governments must join in regional attacks on air and river pollution that cross political boundaries. At the federal level, the maze of agencies with conflicting environmental responsibilities must be reordered. While the Agriculture Department pays farmers to drain wetlands, for example, the Interior Department pays to preserve them. Worse, the farm-subsidy program encourages the misuse of toxic chemicals, one-crop farming that destroys ecological diversity, and mechanization that drives jobless rural laborers into packed cities. Federal highway builders, the Army Corps of Engineers?all such official land...