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...Judea, which is how Begin refers to the West Bank). At the same time, many Israelis doubt his capacity to lead his country to peace because they fear he is too rigid, too suspicious of the Arabs, whom he barely knows, and too traumatized by Jewish history. His harshest critics call him a Yehudi Galuti, a Diaspora Jew, and it is true that for the most part Begin plays to Israelis' fears and suspicions, not to their hopes and dreams...
...interview published in the London Times on August 30, 1977, Tyndall expounded upon his party's ideological foundation, and elaborated upon the Front's social and economic platforms. He advanced National Front programs for social and economic reform, education, foreign affairs and immigration in the harshest and most violent terms. If his language was nothing else, it was decisive, and for a nation heading downwards amidst a melee of impotent, if not economically disabling, government interventions, that decisiveness in itself is becoming increasingly attractive...
...found its very functions and rationale severely questioned. It has had five directors in five stormy years. Its chiefs seem to spend more time before congressional committees than in planning and administering. Its agents, never public heroes because of the secrecy of their work, are now portrayed in the harshest of press accounts as conspiratorial villains. Somehow the rules of the spy game changed and, as the CIA men keep telling themselves, changed in the middle of the game...
Written by a self-described "inside the barricades" White House staffer whom even Nixon's harshest critics always viewed as one of Nixon's "good guys"--a gentle idealist, devoid of malice and full of integrity--With Nixon should be read by all who maintain a fascination, morbid or otherwise, with Richard Nixon and his White House years...
...weeks ago, South Africa's white minority regime has made it more than clear that it is not about to reform its apartheid policy in any meaningful way, let alone accept any move toward a black majority government in the future. Last month's wave of repression was the harshest and widest-ranging since the early '60s: the regime banned 18--or virtually all--of the country's black organizations and shut down South Africa's leading black newspapers, thus openly betraying its claim that South Africa allows the freest press is Africa...