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...East. Nixon was convinced that he owed nothing to Jewish votes and that he could not increase his Jewish support regardless of what he did. Deep down, he wanted to impose a comprehensive Middle East settlement. In October 1972, I forwarded to Nixon a memorandum from Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird urging secret contacts with Egypt to take advantage of Sadat's expulsion of the Soviets and to move closer to the Arab position. Nixon sent me the memo with a note: "K-I lean to Laird's view. The conduct of the American Jewish community...
Another speech--this one given a year earlier at the Harvard Commencement--opens Government professor Samuel Huntington's new book. "American Politics: The Promise of Disharmony." Delivering the traditional "English oration," law student Melvin E. Levine tried to explain the protests of the decade to the parents gathered in the Yard. Our activism, he said, is not an effort to "subvert institutions or an attempt to challenge values which have been affirmed for centuries...We are not conspiring to destroy America. We are attempting to do precisely the reverse: we are reaffirming the values which you have instilled...
...preliminary budget recommendation presented to the city manager last week by Melvin Chalfen, the city's commissioner of hospitals and health services, proposed closing the centers next year and routing their patients to emergency rooms in Cambridge hospitals...
...great gifts who does not quite know what he wants his book to be circles a lady of great gifts who has not never quite known what she wanted her life to be. "Entertaining," she once said about herself. It still applies, to the achiever and her admirer. -By Melvin Maddocks...
...Miss Firecracker Contest, her second full-length play, has completed a successful run at Buffalo's Studio Arena Theater; and her latest, strongest play, The Wake of Jamey Foster, is charming theatergoers at the Hartford Stage Company. Crimes of the Heart will be filmed by Jonathan Demme (Melvin and Howard), and an original Henley screenplay, The Moon Watcher, is scheduled for production later this year. At 29, this soft-spoken sprite from Jackson has more hits percolating than Neil Simon put together...