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There may be a germ of truth here. The passion that animated the early founders of Zion has cooled. The new passionate people are the Arab fedayeen, and in some small dark recess of the national psyche, the Israelis are jealous. In particular, the not-so-young married women who are the book's most fervent admirers have found in Hannah a vicarious release from the unromantic demands of industrialized nation building...
...STUDENTS continued to lobby until Tuesday afternoon, when the amendment was called to vote. The waiting line for the Senate Gallery contained an odd assortment of people. The vote on the Byrd Amendment was scheduled for 2 p.m. At 1:30 p.m. a recess was called in order to see the Apollo 14 astronauts during their tour of Washington. Because of the crowds, visitors to the gallery were only allowed to stay for fifteen minutes. Timing was essential--one student overcompensated and at 1:55 p.m. was shuttled out of the gallery. He spotted a friend in the line...
When Parliament reconvened last week following an eleven-day holiday recess, the first act of Labor Party Deputy Leader, Roy Jenkins, was to seek out his leader, Harold Wilson. In a brief meeting at Wilson's Commons office, Jenkins, 51, bluntly announced that he was resigning, both as deputy leader and Chancellor of the Exchequer in Labor's shadow cabinet. He will return to the back benches in the House of Commons and there, freed from responsibility for maintaining party loyalty, he intends to continue his fight for British entry into the Common Market; an issue on which...
...conflict with classes on March 30 and March 31 because those days fall during a recess...
...faculty voted last January to eliminate the recess, citing a decline in student interest in politics and other reasons...