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Hardly, but her timing might have been better. The day before her arrival marked the sixth anniversary of the start of internment, the unwise British detention plan that summarily imprisoned 2,000 suspected terrorists and thus served to heighten sectarian tensions in Ulster before the program was abandoned in 1975. The day after Elizabeth's departure was another big date in Ulster's calendar of conflict: the anniversary of the closing of Londonderry's gates in 1689 to prevent the forces of James II, the Catholic King of England, from entering. It was rioting touched...
Roller coasters come in two distinct species: wooden and metal. The wooden coasters, contemporary versions of rides of old, are strong, flexible and durable, but they look rickety, thus adding to the terror. Their clacking and creaking are built in, and serve to heighten the sensation of speed...
Such hard Israeli attitudes heighten the threat of conflict. But with Israel fully rearmed by the U.S. since the '73 war and the Arabs indifferently resupplied by Moscow, the Arab "confrontation states"-Syria, Jordan and Egypt-are not very well prepared for another war. Thus the real showdown in the Geneva delay is beginning to loom between Israel and the Carter Administration. Washington accepts Israel's insistence on the importance of true peace, but not its aim of retaining vast tracts of captured Arab land. If these differences between Washington and Jerusalem cannot be thrashed out, the road...
...Toys and Reasons, Erikson adds a third element to Freud's description--play. Starting with a vaguely Piagetian hypothesis that play with toys allows children to heighten their awareness of the relation between the subjective "I" and the surrounding world, Erikson goes on to sketch a very rough schema of the ways people in our culture continue to grow and negotiate their place in society through various forms of ritualized game-playing. He finally extends his discussion to military war games and the anti-war movement of the 1960s, and the brief glimpse it gave of the potential of ritualized...
Political conflicts heighten the tension within OPEC. Higher oil revenues enable Iran to buy more guns and tanks with which to frighten its neighbors across the Persian Gulf−an escalation that Saudi Arabia, one of those neighbors, decidedly does not wish to encourage. The archconservative Saudis are also at odds with the radical Arab states of Algeria, Iraq and Libya, whose hand would be strengthened by a big oil-price jump. The Iraqi oil minister, Tayeh Abdul-Karim, blasted the Saudis for trying to force OPEC to "succumb to pressures from the oil monopolies and imperialist forces...