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...about 300. One group of religious youths, led by Rabbi Moshe Levinger, made their way into a 500-ft. gorge beside an old Turkish aqueduct to squat there until the army or hunger forced them out. "It is our right as Jews to live here," said Rabbi Levinger. "No secular govern ment has the right to give away what the Torah has said is ours...
...also such "reactionary" Arab monarchs as Jordan's King Hussein and Saudi Arabia's King Faisal. Although Faisal has generously subsidized Arafat's Fatah guerrillas, the King has never given a riyal to Habash. Beyond that, the P.F.L.P. still clings to the goal of creating a secular Palestine to replace Israel in which Jews, Christians and Moslems would live together. Fatah and the less extreme fedayeen would settle-temporarily, at least-for Palestinian control of the occupied West Bank and Gaza. The alternative, they argue, is that the territories might be turned over to Jordanian occupation...
MODERNIZATION. Demographers explain the long-term drop in fertility in the developed countries by a complex of conditions that they simply call "modernization." Whenever societies have become secular, industrialized, educated and urban, certain population changes have taken place. Modern medicine prolongs lives and at the same time keeps infant
...democratic idea of the rule of the majority, though practiced for a time in ancient Athens, has gained wide acceptance only relatively late in the day. In medieval times, whether in the great council of the church or in secular parliament, the assent of everybody was esteemed as the ideal. "Unanimity was sought," wrote J. Roland Pennock in the American Political Science Review, "even if it could be obtained only by the process of wearing down and shouting down the dissenters-or by resort to threats or physical force...
...Perón's popularity. She was head of the Eva Perón Foundation, a lightly audited charity that she used to pass $100 million annually to the poor. After she died of cancer in 1952 at age 33, Argentines petitioned the Vatican to canonize her. Although Rome refused, a secular cult has formed to revere her memory; it is still going strong...