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Bandits in Eden. Elon quotes the letter Ben-Gurion wrote to his pregnant wife when in 1918, with the British organizing the Jewish Legion to occupy Palestine, he temporarily abandoned her for the cause: "I did not want to give you a small, cheap, secular kind of happiness. I prepared for you the great sacred human joy achieved through suffering and pain." From such moral heights as well as a rightful sense of wrongs endured, passionate Zionists could not take seriously the half-million Palestinian Arabs who were viewed merely as a harassment in Eden. Arab attacks, which began...
Even in the last grim days, Bruce retained a legion of loyal admirers; they bought his records and his autobiography, and won new converts to the cult. Among the faithful there were some who admired not only the thrust of his satire but the drama implicit in his life. Critic Albert Goldman delivered a healthily skeptical Brucian epitaph...
Obvious Abuses. Inexplicable inconsistencies abound. Pennsylvania exempts properties owned by the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars, but the Elks, Moose, Eagles and Masons must pay taxes on their properties. The Lutheran Church's profit-making Augsburg Publishing House in Minneapolis is exempt, but Nashville's assessor has denied exemption to similar publishing enterprises of Methodists, Baptists and Seventh-day Adventists. The Holiday Inns at Greenville and Boaz, Ala., pay no taxes because the municipalities own them. The University of Michigan earns a tidy income from Willow Run Airport, on which it pays no property taxes; Michigan...
...HARALD O. DOGLIANI Boulder, Codo. Sir: I have had films of mine picketed by the American Legion in Orange County, Calif., and by the Communist Party in Paris. Thank heavens some order has finally been brought into what people may or may not see on the screen by a truly responsible organization: the Mafia...
...part," Chomsky said, "this is a training operation for a new Foreign Legion, an inter-Asian force of mercenaries able to operate in areas pulverized by American air power just before they begin...