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...alone those who have any notion of what his program contains. There is some truth to this, but given public attitudes, it is largely inevitable. Political scientist James David Barber of Duke University observes that many voters say to themselves, "I don't really know what the deficit means. Ido know what adultery means...
...freedom of the press," right-wing Knesset Member Geula Cohen asserted. "I'm for the freedom of Israel." But few expect the South African solution -- stopping the disorders by starving them of media attention -- to work in Israel. The often contentious Israeli press is unlikely to tolerate continued censorship. Ido Dissentchik, editor of the conservative daily newspaper Ma'ariv, called the shutdown of the territories a "hysterical step" by desperate officials trying to hide their own actions. Whatever the consequences for the Jewish state's fragile image, said Dissentchik, "Israeli authorities must live with this problem called democracy...
...Numbered Words," a code language that would probably have more appeal for mathematicians than for poets or orators. Whether it would achieve any more practical success than several thousand other international languages, hopefully devised by linguists and peace zealots ever since Babel (among them: Esperanto, Basic English, Volapiik, Novial, Ido, Ro, Nulango), was another story...
Swearing Is Not Basic. "Every time the Big Three meet," says Richards, "the need for a universal language is emphasized." Basic, being all English, is not a synthetic tongue like Volapük, Esperanto, Europan or Ido; and Richards neither hopes nor expects to see Basic supplant regular English. "It's too dull," he says, "and you can't swear...
...does Dr. Talmey set up Gloro as a rival to such synthetic or simplified languages as Esperanto, Volapuk, Ido, Novial, Occidental, Interlingua, Idiom Neural, Perfecto, Anglic (phonetic English), Basic (English with a restricted vocabulary...