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...reigning cuneiform expert at the University of Chicago, Ignace J. Gelb, who classifies the Eblaite tongue as most akin to the Mesopotamian languages of Old Akkadian and Amorite, and thus distant from Hebrew, believes that the discoveries at Ebla add "nothing directly to biblical scholarship." But Pettinato, who first deciphered Eblaite, considers it an early Canaanite language closest to the northwestern Semitic languages of Hebrew and Ugaritic (the latter was discovered in 1929 at an earlier dig in Ugarit, Syria). One specialist in Ugaritic and Hebrew, American Jesuit Mitchell Dahood of Rome's Pontifical Biblical Institute, goes further...
...professor of Public Policy and Government, may become the next chairman of the Carnegie Institution's panel on "U.S. Security and the Future of Arms Control." Nye, one of about 25 members of the Democraticoriented group, said this week he had explored the possibility with current chairman Leslie Gelb, who is stepping down to rejoin the New York Times. Nye is in Washington today for an arms control conference sponsored by the Aspen Institute...
...University of Massachusetts political scientist, fired what may be the opening shot of a revisionist view of the war in his 1978 book, America in Viet Nam. Lewy examines the process of U.S. involvement and concludes that though the performance was unsuccessful, it was legal and not immoral. Leslie Gelb, now the State Department's director of politico-military affairs, makes a persuasive and subtle case in his new book, The Irony of Viet Nam: The System Worked. Despite his inflammatory (to war critics) title, Gelb's thesis is limited and, as he says, ironic: "American leaders were...
...spokesman for the Pops, Peter Gelb, said that Fiedler is still planning to conduct the Pops on nationwide TV December 17, which will be his 84th birthday...
Rosenthal, the Times's quick-tempered executive editor, was reported to be on his way to Toledo and could not be reached for comment, but Deputy Managing Editor Arthur Gelb declared amiably: "We know there's some kind of parody, and we hope it's funny." The issue is being distributed by Metropolitan News Co., which also handles the Times...