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...United Nations is at the point of officially endorsing anti-Semitism," warned U.S. Ambassador Daniel P. Moynihan. "It is a reckless act, an obscene act." Moynihan's anger was directed at an Arab-inspired draft resolution that condemns Zionism as "a form of racism and racial discrimination," meaning the existence of Israel as a Jewish state. After vitriolic debate, the resolution was adopted late last week by the U.N. General Assembly's Social Committee, 70 to 29, with 27 abstentions. Supporting the measure were the Arab and Communist blocs and some African countries; the U.S. and Western Europe...
...less than one per cent who misuse handguns. And most likely this one per cent will keep their guns in defiance of the law anyway. Furthermore, it is doubtful the law would be enforced against this one percent, because few laws, let alone gun laws, are enforced against the reckless criminal today. Common notions of justice would suggest, however, that the criminal one per cent be punished and the law abiding 99 per cent, who are only trying to defend themselves, be left free...
Feeling somewhat reckless, here are this week's picks, replete with upsets. The Penn-Lafayette game was played last night, and overcoming our tendency to cheat, we have left it out of the selection...
...keeper of the peace is about as inspiring an Andy of Mayberry. There's nothing wise or animal about Robert Shaw's Quint. What you get is the perennial tooth missing, rough and ready sea captain. The only character played to the nines is Richard Dreyfuss's spoiled and reckless kid icthyologist Hooper. While he rarely gasps in awe at the shark's shiny hide. Dreyfuss's terrific comedic talents gives the film exactly what it needs for balance--sparking and believable touches of levity to humanize the nightmare...
...share of the $220 million, Harvard will receive enormous tax concessions which it claims make many of its plans feasible. But in a city which has the highest tax rate in the entire country it seems reckless and ill-advised to lose large sums of tax revenue. The proposed total energy plant alone represents an annual tax loss of almost three million dollars a year. If Boston Edison were to provide the power, taxes on that would bring in about four million a year, but Harvard will pay only $1.1 million annually into public coffers...