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...declared, "What you want to do is make the West Bank part of Israel." Vance added, "The whole idea is to let the people govern themselves. You are retaining a veto!" Begin responded, "We want to keep the right to do so???but we don't intend to do so." I said, "No self-respecting Arab would accept this. It looks like a subterfuge. We are talking about full autonomy?self-control. You are not giving them autonomy if you have to approve their laws, exercise a veto over their decisions and maintain a military
...prison will punish. Some people fear that prisons are now too cushy, so spiffed up that chastisement is nullified. But the "country club prison" is as unreal as the prison cum treatment center. A plain deprivation of freedom?the average prisoner serves two years or so???is quite severe all by itself. Conjugal visits between inmates and spouses, the innovation so often cited as alarmingly humane, are permitted in only nine states. More typical of prison permissiveness is allowing Playboy pinups in cells and unlimited seconds on Wonder bread in the chow lines...
...fiancé broke off the engagement. In that case, Ashley concludes, the contractual promises helped terminate a shaky match. And, he notes, the written word has coercive power: "There is a tendency to live up to a written promise?or at least to make a real effort to do so???when one might shrug off an oral commitment as mere conversation, the specifics of which had long since been forgotten...
...materialism during the "economic miracle." For many, this was a first step toward radicalism. Beyond that, Frankfurt University Political Scientist Irving Fetscher argues, young middle class German rebels were "spoiled by the rapidity of change in a technological world and by a permissive education that created revolutionary impatience." Perhaps so???but the theorists leave unanswered the question of why only a tiny minority of students make the crucial transition of character from intellectual dissenter to murderer. Some senior U.S. intelligence officials maintain that international terrorist forces, spurred by the Kremlin, have been concentrating on West Germany in an attempt...
...eight watchtowers. In addition, about ten guards were down among the men, circulating, waiting, watching for trouble. It was 7:30 p.m., pleasant and cool. A gentle breeze was blowing, and the soft Tennessee twilight was just drawing on. Darkness would not fall for two hours or so???plenty of time for anyone to get away, if he could make it over the 14-to 18-ft. stonewalls...