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Like Childbirth. On amenities at the average TV or radio studio, Canadian Novelist Mordecai Richler wrote recently that the best you can hope for "is something brown, reminiscent of coffee, poured into a Styrofoam cup that, in most cases, you are advised to hold onto as it must also serve as your on-camera ashtray." Authors sometimes deserve no better. When Gore Vidal appeared to do New York's Casper Citron radio show, recalls Citron, "he walked in and said, 'Cash my check for $50, get me a drink, and what's your name?' " Vidal admits...
Defense Minister Shimon Peres, who maintains that the Arabs plan to spend $14 billion of their petrodollars on arms, wanted at least $560 million more than Rabinowitz was prepared to give him. Chief of Staff Mordecai Gur said serious cuts in defense spending might impair Israel's "chance to win a clear victory in a new war within a reasonable time." But some Israeli doves, who have been relatively silent since the October War, surfaced to protest that line of reasoning. Argued Jacob Arnon, a former Finance Ministry director: "There comes a point when defense spending becomes so enormous...
...morning, Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin was at army headquarters in Tel Aviv. Defense Minister Shimon Peres and Chief of Staff Mordecai Gur arrived soon after at Ge'ula Street to take command. Meanwhile, the Arab commandos chose Kochava Levi, who had picked up Arabic in the streets, to translate to Israeli officials their demand for a plane to take the hostages and ten Palestinians held in Israeli prisons to Damascus or Paris. Bandaging the wounded with ripped sheets and shouting the guerrillas' terms down from a fourth-floor window, Kochava emerged as the unexpected heroine of the drama...
Died. Alexander Mordecai Bickel, 49, distinguished constitutional lawyer and Yale Law professor; of cancer; in New Haven. A native of Bucharest, Rumania, Bickel emigrated to New York in 1939, manned a machine gun with the U.S. infantry in Italy and France and graduated summa cum laude from Harvard Law School after the war. Later he clerked for Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, who molded his approach to the law. Politically liberal, Bickel backed Robert Kennedy for President in 1968 and defended the New York Times in the Pentagon papers case in 1971, but often stunned liberal friends with his judicially...
Screenplay by MORDECAI RICHLER...