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...became the first nation to recognize the newly created state of Israel. Relations reached their lowest ebb during the Eisenhower Administration. In 1956, Israeli forces, together with British and French troops, invaded Egypt after Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal. At U.S. urging, the British and French pulled out within two months, but the Israelis remained behind. Dwight Eisenhower lambasted Israel on national TV in February 1957 and privately threatened economic sanctions. Two weeks later the Israelis withdrew...
Alas, the choice of Melville's ninth novel was unwise. Written in 1856, when Melville's health and spirits were at a low ebb, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade is a series of vignettes illustrating the venality of human nature. Woven throughout is the ever changing persona of the Confidence Man, who assumes various guises on board a ship of fools called, with typical Melvillean irony, the Fidèle, as it journeys down the Mississippi one April Fools' Day. It is a rich, difficult and underrated work, but not one well disposed to operatic adaptation...
Moscow's influence in the Middle East has been on the ebb ever since Egyptian President Anwar Sadat expelled an estimated 17,000 Soviet technical advisers and military personnel in 1972. After the 1973 war, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger effectively shut the Soviets out of all Middle East negotiations. By supplying weapons to the P.L.O., Syria, Iraq, Libya and Algeria, Moscow tried to regain a voice in the region's affairs, but with little success. Ominously, the Soviet Union has shifted its attention to Iran, which has been told it will have Moscow's support...
...Friday nights the crowds along Fulton and Nostrand avenues ebb and flow like a tide. Dudes are gambling up and down the streets. The sweet smell of reefer is everywhere, and wine bottles are passed around. Up the block, twelve-year-old hookers teeter on high heels, flouncing their boyish hips. There are drunken brawls, skin-and-bone addicts overdosing, police sirens screaming and the rattle of the el in the distance...
...rolling, cards are turning, and there are hands attached to most of the slot machines, which occasionally gratify with spurts of change. It is the busiest time of year in the new Atlantic City, which has high hopes of becoming the Las Vegas of the East, and the ebb and flow of the surf has given way to an even more soothing sound: great sums of money changing hands...