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...officials believe, could be the Confucian first step that could lead to the necessary 10,000 miles of negotiation. For Yitzhak Rabin, the challenge will be to compromise, to conciliate, perhaps even to try to deal with his people's ultimate enemies, to decide whether to renounce the "fortress risk" in favor of the political risk. It may be the hardest decision that an Israeli Premier has ever been asked to make...
...bloc of Arab and Communist states, UNESCO voted last week to bar Israel from participation in the organization's European regional group. The group charged that Israel, in the process of developing Jerusalem, had failed to protect certain historical sites. *A reference to the mountaintop fortress of Masada, where 960 Jews committed suicide in A.D. 73 rather than surrender to their enemies, the Romans...
...time record belonged to the perpetrators of the 1962 Plymouth, Mass., mail-truck robbery, who stole $1.55 million in cash, and of the 1950 Brink's holdup in Boston, where $1.2 million of the $2.78 million haul was in cash. The profitable target in Chicago was the fortress-like facility of Purolator Security, Inc., one of the nation's largest armored-car and guard-service companies...
...Home Fortress. Americans are becoming more cautious, cynical of Government efforts to control inflation, and more home-centered. Despite high costs, people are still spending heavily on home improvement. Since fewer people can afford foreign travel, more are turning to cheaper local diversions-movie attendance is up 20% over 1973. Some sociologists believe that as mobility decreases and the idea of the home as a fortress takes hold, neighborhoods will grow more conservative and more hostile to outsiders-be they blacks bused in to schools or addicts brought into stable communities for treatment. Psychologists predict life in the fortress will...
Time sweeps past this domestic fortress. Anya marries and bears a daughter named Ninka. Then comes the war. Solidity is undermined, cracked, carried away. Anya and her husband are fenced within a newly decreed ghetto in Vilno. Her father is killed by the Germans, her husband is arrested and disappears. But her mother hides in a large oven and escapes the periodic searches by which the old and the sick are weeded...