Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vision." Avneri, who has long pursued a private dialogue with Arab intellectuals, believes that Israel ought to recognize the Palestine Liberation Organization before Washington does, which would foreclose Israeli options. He believes that Israel should withdraw to its 1949 borders, recognize a Palestinian state on the West Bank, and sign a peace treaty in return for Arab recognition of Israeli sovereignty. Avneri faults Rabin for being at once too anti-Soviet and too negative to Kissinger's proposals. "If the government does not want to recognize the Palestinians and it wants to keep its anti-Soviet line...
...piped-in elegiac music, thousands walked past the open coffin. The Generalissimo's body was clothed in a black Chinese gown with the red sash of the republic's highest order across his chest; his face, thin and white, bore a slight smile and showed no sign of the heart and bladder disease that had made him an invalid and recluse for most of the three years before his death...
...burgers) from building on Dupont Circle. In the residential Broadmoor section of New Orleans, pickets are protesting a Popeye's Fried Chicken shop. At least three community groups in Manhattan are fighting attempts by the franchisers to open new shops in or near residential neighborhoods. One sign says it all: WE DESERVE A BREAK TODAY. STOP MCDONALD...
...dilemma that Bird underscores in dozens of interviews with students, parents and college administrators is that "the great majority of high school graduates aren't sure what they want to do." Indeed, there is no reason why they should be, or why a college freshman has to sign up for a major that from the day he sets foot on campus narrows his possible options and his choice of careers. Most young people simply have not experienced enough variety in jobs or life-styles to be able to make an intelligent choice about then-adult career when they graduate...
...took the keys so she had no choice. We went to my room. She said, "There isn't even a chain on this door!"...I told her that I had something for her to read. A letter. It was more or less a demand for some sort of sign from her that she had the strength and courage that it would take to get us somewhere. We didn't have to hide. She cried. Then she started getting dressed in order to leave without talking about it. I could not allow that and I didn't. After a time...