Word: fasts
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Both sides would probably use missiles, and in consequence there would probably be a large number of civilian casualties. The Israeli aim presumably would be a fast, decisive strike against Syria to avoid a three-front war, with Egypt, Jordan and Iraq joining forces to crush them...
SYRIA lost 103 of its 200 MIG-21 jets in the October war, and 36 of its 80 MIG-17s. The U.S.S.R. has not only replaced all the downed planes with fast MIG-21s but given the Syrians 45 MIG-23 fighter-bombers, the Russian equivalents of the vaunted U.S. F-4 Phantoms. To fly them, the Syrians have cadres of Soviet-trained Cuban and North Korean pilots. In addition, the Russians have given the Syrians 30 Scud ground-to-ground missiles, which have a range of 180 miles and could hit both Jerusalem and Tel Aviv from positions well...
...principle, but he places an equally heavy emphasis on the need for social justice. His fellow bishops apparently feel the same way. In one significant action last week, the bishops opposed "efforts to use food as a political and strategic weapon," and called on "the whole Catholic community" to fast at least two days a week in order to help the hungry. Much more controversially, the bishops voted in a closed and heated session to authorize their pro-life committee to question Nelson Rockefeller's qualifications for the vice-presidency. The committee thereupon asked congressional investigating panels to ensure...
...unique in academe-was the idea of U.S.C. Dean Donald Lewis, a harsh critic of the bum-bung classroom performances of many college teachers. Lewis is particularly impatient with "typically inept" professors who read old and boring lecture notes to freshmen, most of whom are accustomed to watching fast-paced television programs. "The students catch on quickly," he says. "Soon they don't even show...
...book about a mugger. The subject brings various expectations. A certain horror-fascination at getting in on the other side of urban America's living fear; the noncerebral prospect of a bloody how-to guide; perhaps a fast freak-show visit into the mind of an animal. The one thing a reader does not ex, pect is a troubling, memorable encounter with a human being. Yet that is precisely what James Willwerth produces. To enter this mugger's world means that inexorably, as one of the mugger's friends put it, "you don't think about laws...