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...EV FRIEDMAN, 28, a bantam weight lifter, was Israel's best hope for a medal. A physical education teacher in a Haifa suburb and a bachelor, Friedman came to Israel in 1960 from Poland...
...verdict were mixed. Okamoto was visibly disappointed. He wrote a request-later handed to Japanese Ambassador Eiji Tokura-that was scarcely likely to be granted: extradition to Japan, retrial, and the death penalty there. Some editorialists applauded Israeli justice, but Ha'aretz's military commentator, Ze'ev Schiff, pointed out a disturbing argument for executing Okamoto after all: "As long as the Japanese murderer is in Israeli hands, he becomes an operational objective, an invitation for murder and extortion against Israel and its citizens. In order to free Okamoto the Red Army is liable to kidnap Israeli...
...fact, Colas's provisions for the trip included a variety of French delicacies; farmers from his native Normandy provided Camembert, Pont l'Evêque and Livarot cheeses, pâté, tripe à la mode de Caen and a supply of Calvados. Even so, the voyage was no pleasure cruise. Pen Duick's living quarters are so cramped that even 5-ft. 6-in. Colas had to cook almost doubled up over a low stove. But that was a small, familiar drawback. Colas previously sailed Pen Duick singlehanded from Mauritius around the Cape of Good Hope...
...first, her thoughts center on her parents' happiness together. Her mother, Becky, had been a spirited girl from West Virginia who named her child for the state flower and journeyed back ev ery summer of her life. But these memories are overwhelmed by images of Becky's slow, painful death and the Judge's powerlessness to comfort...
There were times in the Cabinet room when Ev Dirksen and the President would lean across the mahogany and look each other in the eye and make a deal and nobody watching them would know exactly what it was or how they had arrived at it, but they would know that the die had been cast. That kind of reading might even keep Harvard awake...