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...month to Congress. The Israelis are confident that their congressional supporters will be more generous. But at this point, they seem likely to be proved wrong. Said House Republican Conference Leader John Anderson of Illinois: "The prospects of Israel receiving the full amount of aid requested are now far shakier than they were before Kissinger's peace mission...
...court hearing. Yet many feel that the closing of state hospitals has been precipitate, with too much concern for economy and too little concern for mental health or public safety. Now that the Nixon Administration has apparently abandoned the community mental health centers, the future of mental care is shakier than ever...
...shakier the U.S. economy looks at home, the stronger it suddenly appears overseas-or so it seemed last week. Domestically, the news was all of upward-spiraling inflation and fears of recession. But internationally, the U.S. began to shake off its image of a pitiful, helpless economic giant...
JUST a year ago, Jordan's limestone capital of Amman was convulsed by civil strife, and King Hussein's Hashemite throne never looked shakier. In three days of bitter street fighting between Hussein's army and the Palestinian guerrillas, 250 people died. The King himself was nearly assassinated in a fedayeen ambush. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the most vigorous of the guerrilla organizations, occupied Amman's two largest hotels and held 77 foreign guests hostage. A truce was arranged in which Hussein made most of the concessions, but it lasted only until...
...concern for the fragility and vulnerability of his own sex, it is usually tenable. But when it seems based on male-chauvinism, or even worse, on Mailer-chauvinism, when sexual self-interest is used to evade recognition of comparable needs in women, his point of view becomes a lot shakier...