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...demonstrations by West Bank Arabs had been increasing since February, the march clearly provoked last week's riots. Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin called Gush Emunin's action a challenge to government authority and a needless affront to Arab sensitivities. Still, the government has been ambivalent about the extremist group's wish to settle on West Bank soil. It has been unable-or unwilling-to prevent the zealots from stealthily moving tents and equipment into the occupied territories and staking out three sites that are now existing communities. While condemning these illegal settlements, the government itself has sanctioned...
...Healey's budget foundered in Parliament. As Wilson prepared to celebrate his 60th birthday, an unholy alliance of Tories, Celtic fringe nationalists, Ulster Unionists, and extremist left-wing Labourites combined to defeat the measure in the Commons by 28 votes. A defeat on such an important question, while it did not constitutionally require the government to resign, immediately called into question its future existence. Wilson cancelled his birthday party Friday and made the Labour leftists see the light. Although it had to resort to the expedient of bringing in MP's on stretchers, the Wilson government won in a replay...
Exiles never forget, of course, but the emigre communities in Miami, San Juan, and New Orleans have calmed down. Extremist groups may still throw a hand grenade down the gangplank of a Russian cruise ship or threaten the airlines of countries resuming diplomatic relations with Cuba, but the lurid billboard in San Juan that showed Cuban soldiers executing prisoners before a bloodsplashed wall disappeared years ago. Hardly anyone remembers its slogan...
...country would be in the hands of the Communists or in a civil war if it were not for the Socialists. Who got rid of [the former proCommunist] Premier Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves and who got rid of Saraiva de Carvalho? We did!" Scares declared that "the extremist left is finished" and dismissed Communist charges that Portugal might be subject to a new right-wing takeover by conservative leaders in the military. Said he: "We have the situation under control...
Instead of persisting in a course that might well convert their extremist perceptions of ethnicity into a dangerous ethnic cleavaging of life at Harvard University, would Mr. Hardie and Ms. Reisman consider the following alternatives. For Peter Hardie, withdrawal from Harvard College and enrollment in the blackest of the blackest college he can locate. For Hope Reisman, Jewish seclusion in her own Jewish abode off campus...