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According to a cruel gibe at the time, Eshkol became Premier "to prove that Israel could get along without one." Lacking flair and unabashedly heimish (just plain folks), he ventured no flamboyant new policies but rather consolidated and institutionalized the investment of blood, money and effort of the earlier years. Under his leadership, Israelis fulfilled the ancient Jewish promise of meeting "next year in Jerusalem." His dream of seeing a new wave of immigration from Russia proved as elusive as peace with the Arabs, but he came somewhat closer to his political ambition of forging a single majority labor party...
...could be something totally different: a response to a particular political order and the grievances it engenders. If symbols gibe with certain psychological needs, it may also be true that particular kinds of political order cultivate certain psychological states. The lot of the Chinese student (as efforts to reform the educational system indicate) was not an easy one. Like society as a whole, the Chinese educational structure has been arbitrary in the extreme and rigidly ideological in orientation. China has been so gutted with students that many are being sent back to do agricultural labor because there are not enough...
Astonishingly, the lessons of the recent Indonesian episode have not been learned. A Communist revolution was crushed by indigenous forces and American officials claim that the U.S. presence in Vietnam "encouraged" the Indonesian army and people to resist the Communists. This account does not gibe with the fact that at the last U.N. General Assembly meeting the Indonesian foreign minister, arch-conservative Adam Malik, denounced the war in Vietnam...
...Although it will involve a definite conflict of interest," Mayor Sam Yorty once joshed, "the city of Los Angeles has purchased the Los Angeles Times." The gibe against his old foe, the most powerful daily in the West (circ. 861,350), has earned Yorty many a laugh. No longer. By last week, the six-year-old Yorty administration was up to its funny bone in its first major scandal, a real-life conflict-of-interest case exposed, naturally, by the L.A. Times...
...there was the inevitable round of tasteless gossip and sick jokes. "Do you know what Smith said to Rusk at the altar?" runs one gibe. " 'Awright, now stand down, honkey!'" In New York, Black Power Agitator Lincoln Lynch denounced Rusk as a "subconscious racist" and added, only half in jest: "I wonder to what lengths Dean Rusk has to go in order to gain support for his and Johnson's war in Viet Nam." Studs Terkel, a Chicago writer and radio commentator, had nothing against the wedding, but as an Administration detractor could not resist a crack...