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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Green Flash. Such was Israel's answer to the sinking of the Elath-an act that had given Egypt particular, if short-lived, pleasure. For more than a day, the destroyer had been zigzagging back and forth in the bay of Romani, a niche in the Mediterranean at the entrance to the Suez Canal. In the knowledge that it was being tracked by radar from nearby Port Said, it alternately sped up and slowed down, darted from time to time into Egyptian territorial waters and then backed out again. It did almost everything but stick out its tongue...
Haughtiness & Bitterness. The Communists have more going for them than arms. Traditional Northeastern distrust of Bangkok in general and of haughty local officials and police in particular make the government's task difficult. There is bitterness, too; though the rest of Thailand is relatively prosperous, years of neglect have kept the Northeast dirt poor. Bangkok too often obfuscates the Communist threat by claiming that Communist helicopters are landing in Thailand to supply the terrorists (there is no evidence of such) or that the insurgency is an invasion by thousands of Thai-born Chinese youths (the terrorists are mostly Thais...
Filipino sociologists trace the high incidence of political shoot-outs to the islands' rigid feudalistic society. Members of a particular clan feel great loyalty to their leader, and the duty to defend him far outweighs the legal injunction against killing. Though the candidates themselves usually counsel moderation and almost never do any shooting, their followers often feel compelled by a fierce sense of honor to avenge insults-or to ensure their leader's victory by canceling out the other names on the ballot with bullets...
...probably six out of ten, by the inexact statistics of the liquor industry, drink at least occasionally. That represents a one-third increase in women drinkers in only ten years. Moreover, women now make about 45% of all liquor purchases, usually for the family. To win over to particular brands this rising number of sippers and shoppers, the industry is doing everything from putting out primers on cordials (National Distillers Products Co.) to promoting fashion shows in which the clothes carry I. W. Harper Kentucky Bourbon labels (Schenley Industries Inc.). Currently, $25 million worth of holiday wrapping is being tucked...
...armed forces and by such companies as Dow Chemical, and we as faculty members wish to join them in urging that universities refuse the use of their facilities for recruitment of this kind. We cannot endorse the use of force against recruiters, although we believe that in the particular case of the Harvard protestors of October 25 any punishment which impedes their academic progress would be excessive. We do, however, support their position entirely and call for all universities, including Harvard and Wellesley, to heed the call to conscience which has generated these protests. Sigmund Abeles, Art Leon Apt, History...