Word: lake
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...Saiqa, and the Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine favor establishment of a Palestinian state in territory now occupied by Israel: the West Bank of the Jordan, the Gaza Strip and the Hemmeh region to the southeast of Lake Tiberias. What troubles other Palestinians, though, is whether acceptance of such an arrangement -even if, as seems unlikely, the Israelis could be persuaded to go along with it-would jeopardize the Palestinians' long-range historic goals. George Habash, leader of the P.F.L.P., remains firmly opposed to negotiation: he still insists on nothing less than the total recovery...
...Fire in the Lake, the best-known book about Vietnam, Frances FitzGerald 62 argued that the Vietnamese peasants had a particular cast of mind, a conception of the world, which conditioned their response to certain events in the 1940's and caused them to join the Viet Minh resistance. Her analysis--which drew upon the work of Paul Mus, an eminent French scholar of Vietnam--explained that in traditional Vietnam the peasant believed that his father, ancestors and emperor exercised great mystical powers over events. After the French consolidated their control over the country, they replaced the emperor...
...Land. Despite the ambivalent picture he painted of the passage into Canaan. of the hostile reaction these immigrants of the mid-1840s encountered in America, Troell brought The Emigrants to a climactic affirmation as Karl-Oscar blazed the boundaries of his new farm by the shores of a Minnesota lake...
...Lake Grove...
Died. Earle ("Greasy") Neale, 81, who gave up a career in major league baseball to become one of football's leading innovators and most popular coaches; in Lake Worth, Fla. Neale spent eight seasons as an outfielder for the Cincinnati Reds, starred in the 1919 World Series, and played pro football during the off-seasons under an assumed name. In his first job as head coach, he led Pennsylvania's little-known Washington and Jefferson College into the 1922 Rose Bowl, where the heavily favored University of California barely managed to hold the Easterners to a scoreless...