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...group, the Sabras tend to dismiss or be uninterested in the grand visions of Zionism; yet they are zealous about the fate of their homeland. They tend to be more tolerant and respectful toward the Arabs of Israel than their parents are. In the right-wing extremist group called "Land of Israel," which would like to expel Arabs from all Israeli territory, there is said to be not a single native-born Israeli...
Last week's violence demonstrated to what extent the balance of extremist power has shifted in recent months. The British army's tough campaign against the I.R.A. has left the organization vulnerable and in disarray. Says one British army officer: "We are on top of them to the point where if they leave their house with a rifle in their hands and turn the corner, they run into us." The I.R.A. also seems to be running short on promising recruits. "We aren't picking up gunmen any more," says the same officer. "We are getting gunboys. They...
British authorities in Belfast say that the assassinations fall basically into two categories: those motivated by blatant sectarianism-extremist Protestants intent on murdering any available Catholic, and vice versa-and those motivated by revenge against suspected informers. In addition, say Belfast police, some victims have merely been in the wrong place at the wrong time. Of last year's 121 victims, 81 were Catholics, as were Jack Mooney and the engaged couple of Donegal (the first such victims in the Republic of Ireland). But each side has been guilty of particularly gruesome murders, which have overtones of both wartime...
White Paper. The obvious hope of the British Cabinet is that the guidelines will encourage representatives of all the Ulster political parties to meet independently with Whitelaw and work out a settlement of their own that can then be presented to Westminster. Extremist Catholic and Protestant groups can hardly be expected to cooperate, of course, but the government is prepared to proceed with an "agreed" solution even if it carries the backing of only the Unionist Party (which has traditionally represented most Protestants) and the Liberal Alliance Party (which includes many Catholics). If no one agrees, the Cabinet will then...
What is to be done about the Games? Can-or should -the Olympics be salvaged before the scheduled 1976 Games in Montreal? Some extremist reformers suggest that both the Winter and Summer Olympics should be canceled entirely, that each event should have its own world championship. This solution is hardly likely, if only because Montreal has been promised an Olympics and the U.S.S.R. is already pressing for Moscow Games in 1980. Others contend that the Olympics would be immeasurably improved by the elimination of "shamateurism"-a portmanteau term designed to describe the practice, common among Iron Curtain and some other...