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...consequences of today's political ferment in the American Diaspora are profound. Both the Bush Administration and members of Congress are increasingly willing to pressure Israel to move the peace process forward. AIPAC is the object of surprising dissent within the Jewish community and deepening resentment on Capitol Hill. Moreover, evidence abounds that all but a few of the 38 Jewish members of Congress (eight Senators, 30 Representatives) favor a compromise in which Israel would exchange territory for peace along the lines suggested by the Reagan and Bush administrations -- despite their unwillingness to say so publicly...
When I graduated in 1968, dope and gangs were already invading our campus, which is tucked into the far northeastern corner of the San Fernando Valley. Black and Latino students were in ferment over civil rights, and there were ugly clashes with white students and teachers. Black pupils rioted for several days to protest the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. Only a full-scale police occupation of the campus restored order. Today nine security guards, two of whom carry pistols, keep violent confrontations and drug use on the premises to a minimum...
...There is a ferment at MIT for change," said Leigh H. Royden, a member of the Faculty Search committee. "We need someone who can bring MIT into the next century, make breaks with the past and take some kinds of risks...
Fears of unrest were also sounded in Bonn, where authorities are worried about ferment within East Germany and the continuing tide of immigrants to the West, which is still running at about 2,000 a day. A top official of Chancellor Helmut Kohl's government, wary of calling too brazenly for unification, urged another formulation. East Berlin, he suggested, should declare that a federal state binding together the two Germanys is the goal of both countries. That, West German officials felt, might help reassure would-be immigrants and stanch the flow...
...Within a few years he worked his way up to literary manager of the Theater on the Balustrade, Prague's principal showcase for the avant-garde. That made him a prominent part of the Prague Spring, which was not just a fleeting season but several years of increasing freedom, ferment and hope. Havel's first script, The Garden Party, a surreal satire of communist pedanticism, was produced at home in 1963 and in at least seven other nations -- in 18 separate theaters in West Germany. British critic Kenneth Tynan lauded the play as "absurdism with deep roots in contemporary anxieties...