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...Ethiopian Jews, called "Falashas" which means strangers in their language, claim descent from the ancient Jewish tribes. Although the Ethiopian Jews are forbidden to leave their villages, about 1400 Jews have managed to escape to Israel since 1977. Another 3000 Jews are estimated to have died trying...
...there are to be new or expanded negotiations with the Soviets, the U.S. can at least approach them with a deeply divisive wound in its own western alliance healed. Or somewhat healed: the manner in which Reagan lifted the U.S. sanctions that had forbidden sale of American-designed equipment for the Soviet-West European natural-gas pipeline, even if it was made by European firms under U.S. license, touched off a nasty, though probably temporary, spat between Washington and Paris...
Harvard's number of early-action applications has decreased each year since the fall of 1979, the first year in which students were forbidden from applying early to more than one school. But this year's decline of 140 is larger than last year's of about 45. L. Fred Jewett '57, dean of admissions and financial aid, said yesterday...
...steward arranges lidded mugs on the table and huge bedrolls and backpillows on our four beds, which within a few hours are blackened with coal grit. We fill the thermos hooked under the table from a water boiler down the hall. In Russia, a local car, which we are forbidden to enter, hitches onto out tail. Other than that secret compartment, we may stroll the length of the train, peeping into second-class berths (fancy slipcovers) and first (two beds, an armchair, a hose shower, and a private toilet). Even in third class, however, there is toilet paper, a genuine...
...universal past or one that can be shared with at least other Jews. In a poem somewhat formidably titled "A Short History of Judaic thought in the Twentieth Century," the poet scratches her bead at the intellectual custom of answering a question with a question. If it is forbidden to touch a dying person except to remove him from a burning house. Pastan asks, who can she touch' She writes: aren't we all dying' You smile your negotiation smile and ask but aren't all our houses burning...