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...Athens' Costi restaurant, which Fielding calls "our local favorite" and praises for its "excellent cookery and ancient waiters," qualifies as somewhat ancient itself. It closed down last summer. In Munich, Fielding marvels at a 330-ft.-high TV tower that is really 330 meters high, and manages to overlook three spanking-new luxury hotels...
...name of Allah, millions of Moslems still faithfully observe the code of the Koran. They refuse to eat pork, do not gamble or drink and never overlook their five daily devotions, performed while facing in the direction of Mecca. Yet the same winds of modernity that have swept through Christianity are now beginning to affect the religion of Mohammed. Last week, at a conference in Kuala Lumpur, Islamic scholars and sages from 23 Moslem nations met to consider ways of accommodating the Prophet's teachings to a changing world...
...furniture and thick, wood-pegged doors. The house encloses a warm, sheltered patio with a fountain, outdoor fireplace, lawn and shrubbery. All five bedrooms open on the patio. Nixon likes seclusion and is especially fond of a semicircular library, reachable only from an outside stairway. Wide living room windows overlook the ocean...
...seems reluctant so far to consider a unilateral U.S. scale-down, worrying those who fear that he may lose an opportunity for lowering the level of the killing by insisting on a formal tit-for-tat agreement with Hanoi. Such critics of Nixon's seeming tough stance tend to overlook the fact that the President, after all, has reacted quite mildly to the renewed offensive. Though they may include policymakers within Nixon's inner circle, the President's detractors come from the Johnson Administration, notably former Defense Secretary Clark W. Clifford and Ambassador Averell Harriman. They are believed to view...
...further limitations on lumber exports to Japan. Such restrictions should help to relieve the shortage and ease prices. On the other hand, they would undercut Washington's goals of fostering free world trade and improving the U.S.'s balance of trade. In any case, Congress can scarcely overlook the need to revamp the nation's timber management policies. That is something that Washington has not done for 30 years...