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...public, Jordanian officials express the view that relations between the Bedouin minority and the Palestinians are healthy and mutually beneficial. Says a government of icial: "When you talk about Jordan today, you talk about a well-knit Jordanian-Palestinian economy. If you talk about radicalization, Palestinians would be equally affected [for the worse...
...spreading and malignant disease. The two gunmen who burst into Paris' most famous Jewish restaurant last week, spraying lunchtime patrons of Jo Goldenberg's with submachine-gun fire before escaping, left more than just six people dead and 22 injured in their wake. The close-knit Parisian Jewish community reacted with rage, fearing that the attack presaged a new wave of anti-Semitic violence in Europe. The attacks were also part of a general war in Paris that suggested that the City of Light had become an urban oasis of terrorism...
...Ronald Reagan's top advisers, Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese, was conspicuously absent from the tight-knit trio of aides that met two weeks ago to determine Alexander Haig's fate. While White House Chief of Staff James Baker, Deputy Chief Michael Deaver and National Security Adviser William Clark discussed the Secretary of State's resignation with Reagan, Meese was kept in the dark. Indeed, the man once regarded as the "deputy President" did not learn of Haig's departure until he returned...
Because of the stability in the neighborhood population, most residents use words like "friendly" and "close-knit" to describe East Cambridge. "For years, everybody around here knows everybody," says 25-year-old Anthony DeSilva, an auto mechanic who has lived in the area all his life. Steve Christo, who graduated from Cambridge Rindge and Latin last month, agrees "What I like about the neighborhood is that everybody knows each other. I don't worry about being robbed or anything...
...University should address those problems in particular, in addition, of course, to preventing another overrun in admissions. The oft-stated goal of making Harvard a tightly knit community remains a fine ideal. But when "closeness" begins to imply living in slummy ex-washrooms, we've got to wonder whether the Harvard Experience isn't actually the Harvard Ordeal...