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...Israel, when most of the Palestinians fled or were forced from the land. Instead of having melded into the populations of Arab states that reluctantly offered them shelter, the Palestinians have transformed themselves from a dispirited band of exiles into a dispossessed people with a purpose, fueled by stubborn memory, anger and a sense of injustice. Their leaders, and the Arab heads of state who back their cause, insist that there can be no broader peace in the Middle East without a solution to the Palestinian problem...
Ever since the Soviets invaded Afghanistan last December, one of the most stubborn concentrations of anti-Communist Muslim resistance has been among the clannish Pushtun tribesmen of rugged Kunar province, near the Pakistan border. Six weeks ago, Soviet military commanders made the narrow river valleys and inaccessible mountains the target of their first major field offensive. Seven full combat battalions rolled into the province with the apparent mission of cutting rebel supply lines by sealing the porous border. TIME Correspondent David DeVoss managed to get across the frontier from Peshawar, Pakistan, for five days and linked up with fighting units...
...says, "I wouldn't stop working for anything! But I'm very stubborn about parts. I am not going to sink into playing little old grandmothers, maiden aunts or cameos. If the audience sneezes or blinks in a cameo, you're gone." Davis underlines her words, punctuating with exclamation points and various marks that are not found in the grammar books. If she says no, she follows it with two or three others. In real life, as in the movies, she is almost never without a cigarette, which she uses like a baton to orchestrate her words...
Secondly, the U.S. government's stubborn refusal to deal with opposition groups appears destined for repetition in the case of the Arab-Israeli conflict, where American public officials continue to deny the legitimacy of the leadership of the Palestine Liberation Organization among Palestinians--again, in contradiction to publicly available facts. The objections to PLO participation in negotiations--that it is "terrorist," that it denies the right of Israel to exist, that it does not represent Palestinians, but is merely a "Soviet tool"--simply do not bear up to scrutiny. The use of violence against civilians did not prevent our negotiating...
...small band of interferon researchers were able to produce or get their hands on enough interferon to analyze its nature, but the stuff was far too scarce or any significant tests on humans. Most of the credit for relieving that acute shortage goes to a stubborn Finnish virologist, Kari Cantell, who proudly admits that "interferon has been my hobby and main scientific interest for over 20 years." Cantell began his career by studying the role of leukocytes, or white blood cells, in fighting infection. He became intrigued when he learned from other researchers in 1961 that these cells could produce...