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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...important that one prevent the Palestinian question from degeneration into an issue of the Jews as a race. After all, Palestinian Muslims and Christians are Semites, like the Jews. Palestinian sympathizers must realize that their adversary is not the Jew, but the anti-Semite. It is the anti-Semite who distorts a political issue relating to the nature of a state, with racial prejudice relating to the nature of a people...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANTI-SEMITISM AND THE PALESTINIAN CAUSE | 12/5/1974 | See Source »

...public at large has come to appreciate his Sabra bluntness. In a debate on possible territorial compromises, Rabin said, "Even if we do not achieve peace, the people must be convinced that their leadership has sought every possible way to advance toward peace, has sought every possible way to prevent war. I want to be able to look straight in the eyes of fathers and mothers whose sons may fall in war, if it comes, with a clear conscience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: A Nation Sorely Besieged | 12/2/1974 | See Source »

...doubt to prevent just that, the party has ordered a buildup of highly politicized, worker-led urban militia-apparently to counter the P.L.A.'s role as a national police force. In one remarkable slight to the professional military, Shanghai's model militia force was pa raded before a group of the city's top political leaders; incredibly, the local P.L.A. garrison commander was not even invited to the event. Returning the insult, a majority of P.L.A. regional commanders, in what looks like an act of open insubordination, reportedly refused to attend a meeting called by Peking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Who's in Charge? | 12/2/1974 | See Source »

Vacant Posts. Why would the professional military resist party authority? For one thing, the army may only be trying to prevent any reduction of the great power it has held in the provinces since the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1969. For another, the military leaders, who tend to be relatively conservative and rigid, may feel that the endless leftist experimentalism of Mao Tse-tung has retarded China's development. A secret Central Committee circular of last summer, which found its way out of China only recently, reports on production declines in key industrial areas, as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Who's in Charge? | 12/2/1974 | See Source »

...Welfare and presented last week to Congress. The report offers several arguments against marijuana. It cites a study showing that habitual use of marijuana can lower the levels of male sex hormones in some men. Those findings, coupled with other research indicating that lower hormone levels in rats can prevent their male fetuses from developing normally, have been of growing concern to doctors; they wonder whether pregnant women who smoke marijuana might harm their unborn babies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Perils of Pot | 12/2/1974 | See Source »

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