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...Nizan, a 20-year-old in the Golani brigade, finds the beatings policy too weak. "I would have liked to behave in a more brutal way toward them and to really stick it to them," he said. "I'm sure if we pressed them to the wall, people here would start to understand we are the ones who run the show." Shmuel, a self-declared "rightist" who emigrated from France in 1984, agreed: "Three weeks ago, when we used the easy hand on them, it didn't work. The only thing they understand is the strong hand. I thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World - empty story | 2/15/1988 | See Source »

...just such random encounters consists the reader's true vocation. These works are capital invested in what Cesar Pavese called "this business of living." Obscure testaments to how eclectic our recorded knowledge has become, writers like Eddington and Vambery (I could name Leon Bloy, Jacques Riviere, and Paul Nizan as well) remind the reader that a multitude of others who possess little reputation have written in the same spirit as the reader reads: their interest was in the chronicling, the renovation of their own experience, and all of them wrote in the hope that such an operation would be valuable...

Author: By James R. Atlas, | Title: On Reading | 12/13/1972 | See Source »

...ALGERIAN WAR jarred the students out of their slumber and acquiescence to adult organizations. Outraged with colonial atrocities students roared out into the streets daily. New groups proliferated with the most militant and politically conscious such as Jeune Resistance, Mouvement Anti-Colonialiste Francais, and Groupe Nizan secretly helping the NLF. Students became a power of their...

Author: By Franklin D. Chu, | Title: French Student Protest: Losing the Romanticism Amidst the Chaos | 9/29/1969 | See Source »

...main question for Egypt," stated Col. Nizan, "is leadership. That nation must have leaders who understand the desires of Israel, and realize that she wants nothing but to be left alone to build herself up. Egyptian leaders who instill hatred into their people only aggravate the situation...

Author: By Robert H. Neuman, | Title: Israeli Colonels Explain Mideast War | 11/21/1956 | See Source »

...Cols. Nizan and Meidan, speculating on the possible results of the Mid-East war, believe that to some degree the conflict has destroyed Egyptian military potential. Egypt's air force has been practically annihilated, and many of her tanks and other armaments have been destroyed, they reported. Furthermore, they stated, Egypt probably realizes now that Israel will not sit meekly by while the Arab states arm for her destruction...

Author: By Robert H. Neuman, | Title: Israeli Colonels Explain Mideast War | 11/21/1956 | See Source »

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