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...twisted wreckage of rusty train cars signals the approach to the Sinai capital of El Arish. After twelve years of Israeli occupation, the town reverted to Egypt in May 1979. Many of the local people speak both Hebrew and Arabic and merchants hawk Israeli goods. At the frontier, travelers are greeted by a sign bearing the word PEACE. Passports are checked and at a makeshift customs depot bags are briskly inspected before a short bus ride across a no-man's land to the Israeli side...
...church instead of staying home and reading Scriptures. They like to hear the sermon." Speakers like Ruff and Rukeyser are paid as much as $10,000 for each appearance, but that is only part of the lure. The real attraction for many is the unparalleled opportunity to hawk their high-priced newsletters, books and cassette tapes. Notes Rukeyser: "I'm often the only one there who isn't selling anything." The standard sales pitch on the investment circuit is fear and more fear. Most speakers describe the economy as falling too fast to be rescued by any Administration...
...eyes rolling toward the ceiling, indicated that she felt like a bit of an idiot. Awkward or not, she kept the onlookers on her side. She bore no resemblance to the young passionflower her merchandisers have hinted she is. But her giddy height and her astonishing face, with its hawk-wing eyebrows, deep blue eyes and full lips too fine for banalities or bubble gum, gave her what watchers have always known she had, a rare order of beauty not seen more than once or twice in a decade...
...Hawk coach Ted Paulauskas brings his 4-4 squad into Cambridge for the teams' second meeting in as many years. The Crimson bounced back from a seven point half-time deficit to take a 78-68 victory in last season's contest...
Democratic Senator Henry Jackson, a hawk on military affairs, had been touted for the Department of Defense, but working against him is Reagan's concept of having the Defense Secretary be part of the inner group of Cabinet officers that would oversee other departments; Jackson may be too liberal on domestic matters for such a job in a Reagan Administration...