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...Security Council Resolution 242, which implicitly affirms Israel's right to exist as a state. Strauss basically concurred, but added that the U.S. favors "a reaffirming and a building on" of 242 with a new draft that could cite 242 and include the Camp David language recognizing the "legitimate rights of the Palestinian people." He told the Premier that the U.S. "might go forward with a resolution of its own in the U.N." along these lines...
What makes it so difficult for the U.S. to talk to the P.L.O. is a 1975 promise that Washington made to Israel not to "recognize or negotiate" with that Palestinian organization until it accepts Israel's right to exist and Resolution 242. Although more than 100 nations recognize the P.L.O. as the legitimate political arm of the Palestinians, the Israelis adamantly condemn it as a terrorist force dedicated to the destruction of Israel...
Everybody, of course, picks on Texas, and rightly so. Texas, after all, has imagined itself to be No. 1 in chauvinism ever since the days of Sam Houston, who proclaimed: "Texas could exist without the U.S., but the U.S. cannot, except at very great hazard, exist without Texas." Thanks to its flamboyant style of braggadocio, Texas is indeed among the front runners in the American art of blowing hard, excelling in what Edna Ferber called the knack of "confusing bigness with greatness." Yet the truth is that in patrician Boston the chauvinism is just as dependable, and its expression...
...court delayed announcing politically controversial decisions before an election in order to save Chief Justice Rose Bird from being ousted by the voters; so far the inquiry has shown less evidence of conspiracy than pettiness and distrust among the court's seven justices. In many other states, accountability commissions exist in name only. Sanctions can be very mild. Massachusetts Judge Margaret C. Scott was reprimanded last February by the state's highest court for "violating the rights of indigents and others" in some 40 cases. Her punishment: she was barred from judging for a year, but she still collects...
...made it possible for him to endure the enormous change in his life that occurred when he was ten. The family fled to France in 1939, but by the summer of 1942 they knew, as his mother wrote in a letter that has survived, that "we can no longer exist legally ..." Before the parents were seized and shipped off to their deaths, they managed to have their son accepted in a Roman Catholic boarding school at Montluçon as "Paul-Henri Ferland," a Catholic orphan...