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...PROSE resembles Hemingway's with crisp dialogue alternating with action described in clean, factual, concise sentence. All of the stories are short and the best ones achieve a density of expression that almost approaches poetry. As in Hemingway, crucial information often has to be drawn from understated detail, especially in the stories openings: Pancake hits the ground running and his beginnings are as tightly packed with meaning as his epiphanic endings. A story as concise as "The Honored Dead" has to be re-read at least once: a tour de force of technique, the story explores the complex mixture...
...dominated by lengthy excerpts form the authors' esoteric empirical studies of student protesters, conducted largely in the early 1970s. The book's conclusions about the unique role of Jewish neuroses in fomenting unrest range from the some-what obvious to the highly suspect. Yet more important is the factual material sprinkled liberally amid the Rorschach blots and data tables: tidbits of information that will compel the curious to investigate further the New Left's strange and unfortunate metamorphosis...
...with distortions. From the start, the press published casualty figures released by the Lebanese Red Cross--without pointing out that the Red Cross director is PLO chairman Yasser Arafat's brother. In an interview recently granted to the Jerusalem Post, American military observer Col. Trevor N. Dupuy indicates numerous factual errors reported by journalists in Beirut. He notes, for example, a New York Times story on the August 12 attack on West Beirut quoting PLO communiqués saying that Israeli planes dropped 44,000 bombs. The article did not comment on the statistic or offer a differing view...
There are factual problems too. Deep Throat supposedly met Woodward on Oct. 9, 1972, a date when Haig was out of the country. In late February 1973, Deep Throat gave Woodward the names of two reporters whose telephones were tapped on White House orders, and added that the eavesdropping was done by an "out-of-channels vigilante squad." In fact, the tapping was done by the FBI, as Haig most certainly knew, since he had relayed the names to the FBI. Dean believes that either Woodward got the date of the October meeting wrong or it never occurred, and that...
...that a Jordanian-Palestinian federation would lead to a "mighty flow of modern weapons" into the newly created Palestinian homeland and a "constant war of attrition" against Israel. By contrast, he argued, Israel could maintain its present occupation and anticipate "a lengthy period of peace, be it contractual or factual." Begin seemed as determined as ever to fight any scheme that would remove the occupied territories from Israeli control. With that, he also seemed to be undercutting America's main hope for a lasting peace in the area. -By William E. Smith. Reported by Douglas Brew/Washington and William Stewart/Beirut