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...Sinai. Thus, when Begin faced his 25th no-confidence motion since 1977 and his fifth since his re-election last June, he was opposed not only by the Labor Party and two small minority groups, but by a handful of his usual supporters. Chief among these was Rabbi Haim Druckman, 49, a Deputy Minister who belongs to the six-member National Religious Party. The bronze-bearded Druckman, the father of ten, holds the view of many religious Jews that the northern Sinai, extending to El Arish in the southwest, is part of the biblical Eretz Yisrael and should...
...Druckman thus joined forces last week with the firebrand Geula Cohen and her two colleagues in the tiny, radical rightist Tehiya Party. In 1980 Cohen wrote legislation calling for de facto annexation of Arab-dominated East Jerusalem. Late last year she tabled a motion to annex the occupied Golan Heights. She would also like to annex the West Bank, but her main mission at the moment is to block the Sinai withdrawal. Says she: "The people of Israel are nervous. This national trauma will stay in our hearts and minds forever...
...technique of the talent available ruled out the possibility of offering classical ballet as well as modern dance. "You need a much stronger technique to be presentable in the classical idiom," Druckman explained...
...problems the company faces--problems inherent in the performing arts at Harvard, but especially acute because of the demanding nature of dance--are far from solution. Newcomer said one of the company's goals is "to make the University more attractive to people who are dancers." But as Druckman pointed out, "most people here who are interested in dance come to Harvard in spite of that, not because of it." The tremendous demands of time and energy that dance involves, coupled with what company members perceive as the University's indifference, are the chief problems. Martha Urann, a company choreographer...
...like to see it become an established, visible part of the Harvard experience, not only to allow dancers to perform but also to give dance greater exposure on campus," Newcomer said. Chin pointed out that "a lot of people don't really know very much about modern dance," and Druckman, too, foresees an educational role for the Company. "An educated audience does exist for dance, but you don't have to be 'educated' to enjoy a dance performance," she said. "I'm hoping there will be people who come to this performance who've never seen dance before, that...