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Palestinian spokesmen last week insisted that Israel had broken the ceasefire first with heavy artillery barrages on Nabatiyah and nearby Beaufort Castle, an ancient crusader fortress below Mount Hermon that has been used by Palestinians as an observation post. In retaliation, the Katyushas were launched on Nahariya from Hill 352, apparently by soldiers of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Israeli military commanders believed that Syria might have condoned the rocketing, since the trucks that carried the Katyushas had not been halted at Syrian checkpoints just north of the Litani River. (The river marks the "Red Line...
...coalition of 16 law school student organizations will still conduct a teach-in at Langdell Hall tonight that was announced earlier this month, and two spokesmen for the coalition said yesterday they decided not to cancel the symposium because it will be focused "on the court more than on personality...
...Chinese, in a factory and then on the legendary Tachai commune. While the first half of his book is devoted to the typical travelers' items (a visit to a school, a jail, a hospital), the rest is taken up by conversations with normal Chinese, instead of the official spokesmen who populate most works on China. Schell has a healthy bias against official statements, the "Brief Introductions" that are supposed to inform the visitor about a particular Chinese institution. Too often, he suggests, the "B.I.s" lack depth, as the guide rattles off the revolutionary phrases without appearing to think about them...
With this soon-to-be-published study, Harvard Sociology professor Orlando Patterson jumps into the ethnicity fray with both feet forward. To the unmasking of the neo-conservatism of the new ethnicity spokesmen he adds a trenchant and remarkably comprehensive critique of the psychological and sociological sources of the appeal to ethnicity, and more important, shows how this appeal has traditionally translated into reactionary and implicitly fascistic social and political action...
...Spokesmen for BUA or TAC were not available for comment yesterday...