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...threw all his energies into Vladimir Jabotinsky's aggressive movement pledged to the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine. After emigrating to British-ruled Palestine in 1935, Shamir entered the law school of Jerusalem's Hebrew University, only to drop out in 1937, as the Arab revolt against the burgeoning Jewish presence in Palestine intensified. That same year, he joined Irgun Zrai Leumi (National Military Organization), the radical terrorist group whose subsequent leader was Menachem Begin...
...were basic. The Meiji rulers abolished feudalism in 1871, and all fiefs reverted to the Emperor. The samurai, warriors who had formed a ruling caste under the shogunate, were pensioned off. They were forbidden to carry swords or even to wear their traditional topknots. When the samurai rose in revolt, they were suppressed by new armies of conscripts (whom the French were training). With conscription came the French system of compulsory universal education. British shipyards began building Japanese warships, and the Royal Navy trained Japanese seamen as officers...
Meanwhile, Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser Arafat is still trying desperately to contain the revolt that broke out two months ago within Fatah, the P.L.O.'s dominant group. His charge that Syrian President Hafez Assad fanned the rebellion prompted Syria to expel Arafat last month. Although thousands of his fighters remain in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, Arafat has had to move his base of operations to Tunisia while trying to win support from Arab leaders and the Soviet Union. The P.L.O. leader could take little comfort in the news from Moscow last week. According to a TASS report...
Modern, by that definition, came out of Europe's revolt against Victorian eclecticism and ornamentation. It was a polemical style that was widely perceived in America as strident and upsetting. Contemporary implied that new functions and technologies required new forms, but that there was no need to get bizarre or belligerent about them. Exhibit Organizer William J. Hennessey points out in his excellent catalogue (published by the Gallery Association of New York State, which is sponsoring the show) that Wright's aim was to avoid both "forced adherence to past periods" and "the abrupt introduction of unprecedented ideas...
...point, Arafat seemed ready to offer an amnesty to the leaders of the revolt. There was no such talk as the chairman led a two-day meeting of the Fatah central committee in the Bekaa Valley. Arafat is now paying the price of the P.L.O.'s defeat last year in Lebanon and of his subsequent efforts toward compromise. If he should lose the present power struggle, the P.L.O. could easily split into two or more groups, with Arafat leading the more moderate elements and the Syrians dominating the more radical wing...