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...needs to demonstrate a hold on P.L.O. factions outside Arafat's own group, Fatah; Abbas is very nearly the only splinter leader available for that purpose. He is also a symbol of a particular type of Palestinian: the generation that grew up in refugee camps, became guerrillas in early manhood, and never accepted any goal but the establishment of a full-fledged Palestinian state, or any method of achieving it except armed struggle. He is not an especially appealing symbol. Abbas usually dresses in fatigues and dark sunglasses and sports a bushy mustache, but his powerfully built body is turning...
Across the Soviet Union the scene is being repeated as people discover that their national tipple is harder to buy. The ability to consume large quantities of alcohol and stay upright was long regarded as a sign of manhood, a badge of fraternity in a centuries-old bond of suffering. But no more. Last May, Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev introduced laws restricting the sale and production of alcohol. Almost overnight the authorities began a major campaign against a problem that is listed as the third most common ailment in the country, after heart disease and cancer...
...extremists, political violence has become a dangerous vogue. "Committing terrorism is like achieving manhood for a Shi'ite," says William Quandt, a Middle East specialist at Washington's Brookings Institution. "Everybody is scrambling to be the most militant...
...acclaimed works reached their audience (his latest famous work, Words, was published in 1964) should be the one to reveal the entire man. Reading Sartre's own everyday observations on life, one is hard pressed not to think that maybe his accounts of the war and his childhood and manhood exploits say more about man's existence than his dry words in later life could ever...
...campaign appealed to patriotism and manhood when hygiene warnings did not succeed. Brandt finds a contemporary speech spouting. "Any man with enough nerve and backbone to wear the uniform of the United States soldier is perfectly able to live a normal healthy life without intercourse throughout the war and afterwards." Accounts of almost 30 percent of military men with venereal disease convinced the Navy to remove all warship doorknobs as a preventive measure one war-time year...