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...hours pass and despite going late to bed and the throb of stubborn hangovers, hundreds of undergraduates drag themselves to chapel Sunday morning, signing little white cards at the door to prove they've been there to get credit...
...American sales. The Japanese then nervously hinted that they might restrain their exports to the U.S. without being asked. A growing number of industrial leaders in Japan now believe that auto exports have inflamed too much anti-Japanese sentiment in the U.S. and that Japanese automakers are being unnecessarily stubborn. Said a vice president at Japan's giant Mitsubishi Electric Corp.: "The auto companies are behaving like a visitor to a hospital who prances around a dying patient's bed wearing noisy wooden clogs...
...stubborn mood extends to the Red Sea coast, where two Israeli resort settlements have sprung up between Eilat, at the top of the Gulf of Aqaba, and Sharm el Sheikh, near the Sinai's southern tip. The new spas, havens for Israeli tourists, foreign sightseers and hippies, are tolerant to a degree unheard of in Israel. Sunbathers routinely strip naked on the placid beaches. Hashish, smuggled from Egypt, is freely available. Many of the Israeli hoteliers and other developers would like to stay on after April 1982, but the Egyptian entrepreneurs waiting in the wings have resisted all proposals...
More than two years after the Soviet-backed Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia (Kampuchea), Hanoi's puppet regime, led by Heng Samrin, is firmly installed in Phnom-Penh and has restored a measure of order to the wartorn, famine-stricken country. Even so, stubborn resistance continues in the countryside, spearheaded by the Khmer Rouge, the fighting force of the ousted Pol Pot regime. An estimated 40,000 strong, the Khmer guerrillas have managed to hang on to crucial sanctuaries with the help of substantial political and military aid from Viet Nam's hostile neighbor to the north, the People...
...Welsh has assembled many of the best-known paintings, from the burning and writhing Sunflowers through the spiky lateen-rigged boats on the Camargue beach at Stes.-Maries; from the bedroom in the Yellow House at Aries to the tiny, dense icon of The Sower, a stubborn black lump distributing flakes of seed under the vast Apollonian wheel of the setting sun. Yet although these images have joined the noble cliches of art history, they can be seen afresh through their relationship with the work of other artists. The service this show does for Van Gogh is to place...