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...need to come to terms with each other not only for the sake of world order but for selfish reasons. The Arabs need the help?and the lessons?that Israel is willing to give. The Israelis need peace. "We must try and try and try again to find a modus vivendi with our neighbors," says Levi Eshkol. "A small state has to work hard for friendship." Israel's hardest task is not just to survive the onslaught of Arab enmity, but to convince the Arabs that the Jewish state, here to stay, is worth having as a neighbor...
...older woman who with her husband nurtured the young playwright's talents in his more golden days. To rediscover himself, Grant heads for the Caribbean to go skindiving. In addition to a shark or two, he spears beautiful Lucky Videndi, and as he tries to work out a modus vivendi with her, he alternates between ocean and bed. In fact, Jones devotes so much of the book to plumbing such depths that the reader gets a queasy feeling of sea-sackness...
Reston's realization that policy must be reported while it is still being debated gave him his modus operandi: "Read the newspapers and raise in your own mind the unanswered questions. You can anticipate what the government will do, and, on the basis of that, go after it." This "projective analysis" became Reston's specialty. A good example was his prediction, in 1947, that Secretary of State James F. Byrnes was about to retire...
...hoped to help strengthen India so that it can take its place along with Japan as a bulwark against Chinese Communist expansion in Asia. In the talks, he would gently insist that India must take steps to control its population growth, revamp its outmoded agricultural methods, and find some modus vivendi with Pakistan so that the two bitter foes do not expend their economic resources arming against each other...
...clear fingerprints for police in one section of New York to identify a suspect from another part of the state. Gallati plans to convert all fingerprints into mathematical formulas and store them on magnetic tape along with all data on personal appearance and every crook's modus operandi (working methods). With only one or two fingerprints, telephone-linked computers can then "search" police files across the state, yielding positive identification from hundreds of miles away in only two hours...