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...first post-election public appearance at Alon Moreh (meaning the Oak Landmark), a settlement named after the first place Abraham lived when he arrived in the Promised Land. The modern Alon Moreh, considered illegal because the government did not approve it, is a settlement of nationalist zealots belonging to Gush Emunim (Group of the Faithful) that had braved the hostility of Arab neighbors for 18 months...
Jerusalem, in Israeli terms, is nonnegotiable. Elsewhere in the occupied territories, 80 Israeli settlements have been established with more on the way. Two weeks ago, Israel's government authorized the first official settlement in Masha, not far from an unauthorized, thriving settlement that Jewish hard-liners of the Gush Enumin (Group of the Faithful) set up at Kaddum. The Israeli government intends to establish at least eight more settlements in occupied territory within the next year...
Aside from that, all he has as presented here is his dubious wit and reputation as a drinking man--the best known in America since W.C. Fields, the authors gush. He brags endlessly about his phenomenal partying abilities--his "cast iron stomach," beer for breakfast, minnow swallowing, guzzling at the banquet podium...
Take this week's Midnight. Its front page dazzles the eye as well as befuddling the mind with headlines that drip with gore and gush. Did you know that the Russians may have been behind the recent "cold wave" which paralyzed half of the U.S.? That a C.I.A. clerical error cost President Kennedy his life? Or that Toni Tennille, who is apparently a "singer" of paramount ability, attributes her "success" to fate...
Cozy Chatter. In a gush of good will, the 95th Congress convened amid clinking glasses, receptions that stumbled on into the evening hours and cozy chatter about a new comradeship between Capitol Hill and the White House. Nearly 200 children of all ages gamboled about the House floor as all but one of the 435 Representatives (Illinois' Morgan Murphy was absent for a funeral) attended the opening ceremonies, many bringing their families. In the Senate, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller presided over the opening rituals as one of his final official acts in the fading Republican Administration. In both chambers...