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...over the West Bank, well-armed Jewish settlers are becoming a law unto themselves, stalking the countryside with guns, shooting up Arab homes and smashing cars. President Chaim Herzog has warned that vigilante attacks "could create a most dangerous situation in the future." Last week the army announced that it would increase its estimated 4,000-troop force in the territories by 20% to combat Palestinian violence. Yet the Israeli army continues largely to turn a blind eye to the settlers' miscreant activities...
Heather E. Herzog, a staff assistant at the Bureau, attributes the low turnouts for the discussion sessions to the war's being "a very, very personal issue...
Some Arab and Israeli students have been receiving one-on-one counseling, Herzog adds...
Already this year three managers have been asked to seek challenges elsewhere in the private sector. And just last Friday master strategist Whitey Herzog suddenly quit after eleven years as skipper of the St. Louis Cardinals. Earlier in the season Davey Johnson, who led the New York Mets to a World Championship in 1986, was terminated despite a career winning percentage of .593. Bucky Dent was the latest casualty of the mercurial reign of New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, who must believe that God loves Yankee managers since he made so many of them. And in Atlanta's answer...
...rewarded with a new contract that will keep him bleeding Dodger blue until 1992. But baseball's other senior statesmen have found losing almost impossible to endure. Last season Detroit Tigers manager Sparky Anderson needed to take a month off to recover as his team plummeted to the basement. Herzog was admirably frank as he resigned from the last-place Cardinals: "I couldn't get them to play better. Anybody could have done better than me." Too bad the owners never seem to take the same rap for bad teams...