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SALESMAN. The Maysles Brothers spent six weeks filming an actual group of New England Bible salesmen at work; the result is an arresting and occasionally appalling cinema verite record of one desperate part of American society...
Neither Israel nor the Arabs could be expected to accept such proposals completely. Israel, moreover, maintains that any settlement can come about only as the result of face-to-face agreement with Arab negotiators. On this point, the Arabs are reluctant, partly because such formal talks would imply full Arab recognition of Israel...
Wailing Wall. Given the vitriolic state of Arab-Israeli relations, it was, in a way, remarkable that these secret meetings took place at all-and perhaps not surprising that they produced no results. The Israeli sessions with Hussein at first seemed promising. Hussein agreed to Israeli construction of defense settlements overlooking the West Bank of the Jordan River, as well as to a demilitarization of the West Bank area, but he rejected the idea of an Israeli cordon sanitaire along the West Bank. In turn, Israel accepted Hussein's demand that Palestinian refugees who fled the West Bank...
...Addis Ababa for discussions on the war with Emperor Haile Selassie; so a third suggestion was that Ojukwu join him there. But the bearded emperor has twice persuaded Ojukwu to take part in talks with the Nigerians that turned out to be futile. As a result, Ojukwu mistrusts the Lion of Judah, and would probably not come to Addis Ababa. Under such circumstances, peace negotiations appear to be as close to stalemate...
Although the experts at the Sirhan trial are all fully qualified, the fact is that many of the best minds in the profession refuse to appear in court, on the grounds that they cannot give adequate and accurate testimony under the rigid rules of the adversary system. As a result, supposedly expert opinion as to a defendant's mental state is sometimes put forward by second-rate practitioners with a talent for publicity...