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Energies thwarted in Israel often come bursting forth in the U.S. Yigal Mizrahi, 27, a former cabaret owner in Tel Aviv who went to New York in 1975, has opened an Israeli nightclub in New York called Peacock's Piano Bar. Customers dance the hora on its oversize dance floor, "I miss Israel," Mizrahi says. "That's why I started this club. I wanted to give Israelis in America some of the spirit of home." Another successful immigrant is Chaim Zitman, 34, who left Israel 13 years ago as a student, and has become a millionaire selling electronic...
...very peculiar situation now. We've been waiting for years and years for a breakthrough in the Arab world. I used to dream that if this would happen, we'd be dancing the hora in the streets of Tel Aviv. And yet there's a mood of gloom in Israel. Either the peace is a failure, and I don't think it is, or someone has failed to project the peace the way it should be. And who is it but a leader who is to project...
After dwelling so long beyond the world's gaze, the Chinese suddenly seemed everywhere, bargaining intensely, cutting deals, eager to learn how the rest of mankind makes things work. In August, Hua visited Eastern Europe, where he gaily danced a hora with Rumanian youths. That spectacle on their European front did not amuse the Soviets, who keep 43 of their best combat divisions tied down along their 4,500-mile border with China. Teng went to Japan to ratify a peace and friendship treaty, pledging amid champagne toasts to "let bygones be bygones." He then flew to Thailand, Malaysia...
...performance calculated to jangle the nerves of the Russians. There he was, no less a personage than Chinese Communist Party Chairman Hua Kuo-feng, hand in hand with Rumanian President Nicolae Ceausescu, dancing the hora while hundreds of young men and women clapped their hands and thousands of onlookers chanted "Hua! Hua!" And the scene of all this commotion was right in the Kremlin's backyard...
...from the sere soil. Yet television antennas sprout incongruously from the roofs of houses in Arab villages, while women in colorfully embroidered dresses still gather to wash and gossip at the central well. In Jewish settlements that dot the sun-drenched landscape, youths in jeans and yarmulkes dance the hora after school is let out. Their parents leave guns at the door when they gather at the community center-surrounded, as often as not, by barbed wire and sandbags-for Sabbath prayer...