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...Palestinians to cross daily. Still, 40,000 others who had worked in Israel before the violence were left jobless -- and furious. As Rabin and Arafat met last week, several hundred laborers protested at the main crossing point into Israel. Asked whether he was demonstrating against Arafat or Rabin, Nabil Fami, a truck driver, replied, "What's the difference? They belong to the same Establishment, which is treating us like pigs...
Later Berdabali drives his visitor to nearby Wadi-Fami, where 400 government soldiers equipped with only six tanks and 21 Toyotas defeated 3,500 Libyans and rebels last September. How did they do it? "We just charged them, that's all," says the commander. As he roared off in his Toyota, a soldier called after him, "Bonne route, Papa...
...program's value lies in the fact that it allows them to conduct research under optimum conditions. The city and the other group members are never far away if they want advice or old friends; most of the Indians with whom students work have been visited before and are fami- liar with the procedure of observation and interviewing. The Project now enjoys a history of good relations with the Indian community and has won much confidence and cooperation, so that researchers can be settled and working on their projects after only two or three days in the field...
...BRIGADIER AND THE GOLF WIDOW, by John Cheever. In these short stories, the author writes again of exurbia: the proletariat of vice presidents, the charming, irresponsible remnants of old fami lies, and the winning eccentrics...
Probably the strongest single force in the Formosan economy is the U.S.-Chinese Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction, which has worked on some 3,000 economic projects and carried out a much-needed distribution of farm land that has benefited half a million Formosan fami lies. The commission created a whole new export industry by teaching farmers in 1959 to raise mushrooms; this year Formosa will export 1,000,000 cases of mushrooms worth $10 million. Formosa has become the world's largest pineapple exporter ($12 million worth last year), thanks largely to the fact that the commission taught...
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