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...picture Slesinger paints is a dismal one. If a woman wants power, she achieves it with coyness and manipulation. If she does not opt for power she becomes helpless and miserable. And if she makes honest, well though out decisions that straight-forwardly put the running of her life into her own hands she runs the risk of denying her femininity...
...from Arab leaders at last month's Rabat summit, had no comment on the speech. Expectations are that he will dissolve Parliament this week, form a new Cabinet and proceed with his announced plans for a "Jordanization" of his kingdom that would exclude Palestinians from power unless they opt for Jordanian nationality. An anti-Palestinian movement has sprung up among East Bank Jordanians. They are urging the King to approve a law that would in effect make Palestinians who fled to the East Bank after 1948 second-class citizens. They would be given passports but would be denied...
...other hand, are pleading with Hussein not to move against Palestinians in his kingdom until an independent state is set up. Privately, both the Egyptians and the Saudis have urged the King to move slowly lest it appear that he is trying to force the Palestinians to opt for Jordan and against the P.L.O. Nothing, of course, would please Washington and Jerusalem more than if a majority of Palestinians did in fact side with the King and reject the fedayeen organization. The Israelis, who remain adamant about not dealing with terrorists on any matter whatsoever, hope that their hard stance...
However, it is in his advocacy of the abolition of the family that Jencks really oversteps himself. After presenting a persuasive argument for a socialist society, Jencks's courage fails him. He has trouble making up his mind whether to opt for socialism, the abolition of the family in favor of a Kibbutz system of child-rearing, or a combination of both. This confusion is not warranted by the facts and arguments Jencks provides. He argues...
Although Castriotta indeed has health problems (she is now at Mass General), many tenant groups here have speculated that a problem of another nature forced her to opt for resignation. As the summer progressed, Castriotta found her iron grip on CHA operations slipping, in large part stemming from the July appointment of a pro-tenant commissioner to the five-member CHA board and the resignation of her ally Charles A. Ferraro, CHA executive secretary. His day-to-day running of housing authority activities in the last year led to charges by a State Community Affairs official that...