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Gargan has the gregarious wit of a Boston pol. In July he became president of a bank in Hyannisport, and moved his wife Betty and two children to a house there partly in order to live close to the Kennedy compound...
Counsels of Caution. Despite the incendiary speeches and the orchestrated street demonstrations in Arab capitals, few experts expected a major conflagration. Part of the world, at least, seemed to be learning to live less nervously with the Arab-Israeli conflict. Last spring President Nixon described the Middle East as a "powder keg," needing only the tiniest spark to explode. Last week, however, Washington viewed the current situation coolly, and the State Department said merely that it was counseling "restraint" to both sides. Moscow made no comment publicly, but U.S. diplomats believe that the Soviets have no interest in escalating hostilities...
...them too hard, and do not teach enough mobile warfare. According to the official slogan, Egyptian-Soviet friendship is "loftier than the Aswan Dam and more solid than the Pyramids." In fact, the relationship is pragmatic rather than cordial. Even during construction at Aswan where 3,000 Soviet engineers lived and worked shoulder to shoulder with Egyptians, few friendships developed. In Cairo today, thousands of Russians live clannishly in their own apartment blocks, drink at their own clubs and shop at their own commissaries-from which some of the Soviets purchase extra vodka and sell it to Egyptian merchants...
...year before the Sudan achieved independence, black soldiers mutinied in Torit, slaughtering 78 Arab officers. The terror had begun. Villages were harassed by the army and by rebels in turn; thousands of tribesmen were killed. Refugees flocked south into Uganda and the Congo; today, about 70,000 black Sudanese live in the two countries...
...gathered are convincing enough to impress the Russell Sage Foundation, which is oriented toward the social sciences; it has just given him an eleven-month grant for additional explorations of the vital buoyancy of optimism. Eventually he hopes to establish that anticipating significant events can help people to live longer, a finding that could lead to important changes in the psychological treatment of the elderly and the seriously ill. If further study bears out this hypothesis, Phillips says, it will prove that "dying can be a form of social behavior...