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...Some harsher critics in the Knesset would like to close down the company and start a new one, a move that would allow it to reorganize, terminate its labor contracts and prune the work force. Though such extreme action is unlikely, it remains "a possibility," says Managing Director Mordechai Hod, who was commander of the Israeli air force during...
Levitt says he was eventually transported to still another location, perhaps on Long Island, kept in a basement and treated to an even harsher harangue by as many as 30 people. After a week he was taken to a girls' camp in New York's Catskill Mountains. Finally, just before dawn on the 15th day, he says, he eluded sleeping guards, made his way through the woods and phoned state police...
...charged Eileen Shanahan, Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, in a speech to the Women's National Democratic Club last week. Her criticism of the bureaucracy was no harsher than comments that can be heard from many of the 2.8 million federal employees themselves...
...hour Watergate roman à clef, Washington: Behind Closed Doors, last fall, half the critics and columnists in the country attacked the mini-series for playing fast and loose with recent political fact. Then the same network aired a so-called docudrama, The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald, to even harsher criticism. Now NBC and CBS are getting ready to take their lumps. King, a six-hour miniseries consecrated to the life and times of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has already been assailed by King's second in command, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, for overstating the role...
...Columbia Street at night and the chances are good you will hear music with a Latin beat escaping from the windows. Winter has driven the guitar-strumming, beer-drinking knots of friends off the stoops, it's true. The windows are shut tight against a cold which seems even harsher compared to the tropical warmth of Havana and San Juan. But though forced inside by an inhospitable climate, the music will not be imprisoned. The salsa sound of Puerto Rico, or perhaps a Mexican ballad, filters faintly out to the street, signalling to the passerby that he walks...