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...afternoon Peres left Israel in an unmarked Israeli air force Boeing 707, accompanied only by a handful of aides, an Israeli television crew and two reporters. After landing in Fez, Peres was driven up winding mountain roads to the official guest house, close to the King's granite palace retreat 125 miles from Rabat and 4,400 ft. high in the Middle Atlas range. The Israeli party was finishing dinner when the King drove over in his own car and welcomed his guests. The two leaders greeted each other warmly and then conversed freely in French...
...late 1970s, however, all the varied roads to socialism were converging on dead ends. "Most governments were seeking to reduce the public, and expand the market, sectors of their economies," writes Historian Paul Johnson in his chronicle, Modern Times. The retreat was foretold by a swing in intellectual fashion. It began with the 1970 publication of Jean-Francois Revel's Without Marx or Jesus, which praised U.S. society as open and pragmatic and rejected socialism as a dogma that had failed...
...this splendid craftsmanship, popular moviemaking at its best, is in the service of building rooting interest in the story of a woman who keeps finding ways to transcend the limits that unexamined custom often imposes on her sex. In action pictures, women are supposed to swoon or retreat to a safe corner (or, at best, praise the Lord and pass the ammunition) while the male lead protects them and defends Western civilization as we know it. In Aliens, it is the guys who are all out of action at the climax and Ripley who is in a death duel with...
Today, however, the European Communist Parties are almost all in retreat after suffering disastrous setbacks at the polls. Even the Italian Communist Party, still the world's largest nonruling Communist Party, has watched its membership slide from a high of 2 million in the mid-1970s to 1.65 million. . More telling, Bologna is the only large city that still has a Communist mayor. In 1976 there were five, including Rome and Naples. The chances of a party resurgence seem slim under the current leadership of Alessandro Natta, who is bland and unforceful...
Industry Minister Chirayu Isarangkun arrived in Phuket to announce that plans to open the hated factory would be shelved, but he was forced to retreat to a neighboring province without delivering his message. Rioters looted and burned the hotel where the Minister was thought to be hiding, vandalized three banks and set fire to the factory...