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...bathers as they watch, typically, Jaws, Creature from the Black Lagoon (this in 3-D) or Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Movies are free after patrons pay a $14.95 general-admission fee, $9.50 after 5 p.m. "This is the prototypical Southern California experience," says park spokesman Stan Friedman. "It combines the beach, swimming and Hollywood all in one place...
FROM BEIRUT TO JERUSALEM by Thomas L. Friedman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $22.95). Friedman won two Pulitzer Prizes during the 1980s while covering the Middle East for the New York Times. Now based in Washington, he looks back on the harsh realities of a region drenched in myths and bloodshed...
...welcome quickly ran out. Friedman maintains that Israel's hidden agenda -- wiping out Palestinian agitation once and for all and playing midwife to a friendly or at least neutral government in Lebanon -- was the stuff of fantasy. The dispersal of their leadership would not stifle Palestinians' aspirations; and there was no force in splintered Lebanon capable of uniting the country...
...Friedman was also on hand at the birth of the intifadeh, the stone-throwing rebellion by young Palestinians living in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Here was David vs. Goliath with a vengeance, shown nightly throughout much of the world on the evening news. But Friedman argues that the myth -- stones triumphing over might -- threatens to bury reality. Israel will not be brought down by slingshots; tanks and troops will not quash resentments. If anything is to be accomplished, a photogenic revolution must give way to hard bargaining...
Those who believe in the power of reason to solve disputes will find From Beirut to Jerusalem glum reading. Oddly enough, Friedman remains optimistic. Amid all the shambles and contradictions of the Middle East, he met and worked beside Jews and Arabs who passionately want to live together in peace. Their will may be thwarted, by habit or history, but no one who reads this book can resist rooting for their success...