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...peace. We are tired of war. We want better days for our children." All that keeps many Palestinians from openly working with the Israelis toward that end, in fact, is uncertainty over just what will finally become of the West Bank. Afraid to cooperate too actively with the Israelis lest they be called collaborators if Jordan regains the land, they may need only a firm declaration of Israel's intentions to make them all as pragmatic as their leaders...
Passionate Know-How. Jarrell's chosen theme was life made precious through knowledge of its vulnerability, and with unerring instinct he chose to express it often through the reveries of a woman -a woman who hides her deepest findings about life lest they destroy family morale. The theme is best expressed in "The Woman at the Washington...
...special message from Jordan's King Hussein and Kuwait's Crown Prince and Prime Minister, Sheik Jaber al Ahmed es Sabah. The gist of their joint communication as delivered by the Shah: the U.S. must find some way of expressing concrete support for the Arab moderates, lest pressure from the left force them to look to Russia for future support and assistance. The most practical support, suggested the Shah, would be arms. Not only was the Shah concerned about Senators who want to limit or end U.S. arms sales abroad; there was also the problem that deliveries already...
...father, Jack Dennis, was a bakery driver-salesman who also happened to have a tested IQ of 160. After the war, Jack joined the post office as a railway mail clerk based in Lincoln (pop. 98,884), where Sandy was mainly raised. Her mother toiled as a secretary, lest their daughter ever be unindulged. Sandy, after all, was a quick, creative child who read ferociously long before she got to school. Later on, she regularly gobbled six or seven books a week, favoring Willa Gather and Shakespeare...
...money market during the second half of 1967 to pay the deficit-plagued Government's bills. Another $25 billion of maturing federal debt must be refinanced. Figuring that Treasury financing on such a scale would drive interest rates above their present levels, many corporations have accelerated their borrowing lest they be caught in another credit squeeze...