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Ethnic tensions flare...
...ugly outbreak of anti-Semitism in the U.S. or Western Europe? Not at all. It was part of an unusually severe flare-up of ethnic tension in Israel between Sephardic Jews, who came from North Africa and other parts of the Arab and Oriental world, and Ashkenazi Jews, whose roots are in Europe. Though the Sephardic community now forms a majority in Israel, according to most authorities, and was largely responsible for bringing Prime Minister Menachem Begin to power, the more affluent Ashkenazim have long dominated the country's institutions...
...China had suspended those negotiations in retaliation for the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan in late 1979. Even before Ilyichev arrived in Peking three weeks ago, the Sino-American relationship was undergoing its most intense growing pains in a decade. The immediate cause of difficulty is a flare-up of the old dispute over the status of Taiwan. More than three decades after Mao Tse-tung's takeover of the mainland, the Nationalist government on the island still calls itself the Republic of China. Peking, on the other hand, regards Taiwan as a province under the sovereignty...
...long night of petty anarchy. Ironies and animosities collide everywhere: on a quiet street, a cat defiantly arches its back at a small dog leashed by its owner, even as the local lads shout, "Go back to Poland!" at the uncomprehending laborers. At an intersection, fenders graze and tempers flare. In a supermarket, a woman in a fur coat filches consumer goods the Poles could neither find nor afford back home. (Her thievery gives Nowak the inspiration for his own shopping scam.) A derelict steals Nowak's food and saves him from being apprehended with it. London, the dowager...
...judicial ruling reversed a 1981 Administration move that rescinded a so-called passive-restraint requirement imposed earlier on the industry. Now the whole debate over the usefulness of air bags and self-buckling seat belts seems ready to flare back to life again...