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Many Israelis disagree. In a poll published last month in the Tel Aviv daily Ha 'aretz, 60% said that the anti-Arab violence was unjustified, though 32% felt it was "totally justified" or had "a certain justification." Says Gerald M. Steinberg, a professor at Jerusalem's Hebrew University: "Self-appointed avengers weaken the state and reduce us to the level of other perpetrators of terror...
Such inequities were aggravated by the open disrespect in which many Ashkenazic leaders held their compatriots. In 1950 one Ashkenazic writer in the Tel Aviv daily Ha 'aretz cavalierly described North African immigrants as "completely ruled by primitive and wild passions" and warned that "in their camps you will find dirt, cardgames for money, drunkenness and fornication." Though the Sephardim regarded Ben-Gurion as a messianic deliverer, he declared in a 1965 interview that " the Jews from Morocco have no education. They love their wives, but they beat them. The culture of Morocco I would not like to have...
More subdued are 33 Dunster St. and Ha 'Penny (F21 Mt. Auburn St.), the latter located near the Filly 33D is comfortable and spacious and drinks are surprisingly cheap, though there is little else there to interest the drinker Ha'Penny, although it is mostly frequented by older area regulars, has the best jukebox in the Square, nice waiters, and fairly inexpensive drinks. The low lighting and small tables make it best for couples or small groups, though it becomes overstuffed in the weekend crush. Best on weekday evenings...
...Down with misery and hunger!" the crowd shouted as it stormed through the northern coastal city of Cap-Haïtien last week, demanding an end to police brutality and clamoring for more food. Hundreds of people blocked the town's entrance with boulders and then marched on the police and army headquarters. Government forces responded by firing into the crowd. The toll: three dead and more than a dozen wounded. It was only the latest clash in the most serious outbreak of social unrest in 27 years...
...have obscured the real extent of this year's fighting, the sheer volume of the competing claims and counterclaims appears to confirm that the situation has seriously deteriorated. Only last week, the Vietnamese claimed they had killed or wounded hundreds of Chinese troops in the border province of Ha Tuyen...