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...last Monday and needed fresh authority from Congress to continue spending money. The legislators had fixed a second deadline: they agreed to strive for adjournment Thursday so that they could go home and campaign full-time for reelection. Religion posed a third deadline: Congress decided not to legislate past sundown Friday, the beginning of Yom Kippur, in deference to its Jewish members...
...military's effectiveness has risen, although much of the improvement began before Duarte took office. Under pressure from U.S. advisers, the army has stopped fighting the war on a 9-to-5 schedule, making forays into the countryside and returning to the barracks at sundown. Instead, commanders increasingly keep their patrols in the field for days on end. Salvadoran officers admit that not many guerrillas have been captured or killed in recent months, but they say that by keeping the country's troops on the move they are keeping rebels scattered. The army is also trying harder...
What concerns many Israelis is that some Orthodox Jews want to regulate daily life according to Halakhah, or religious law. Coed swimming would be outlawed, only kosher food would be served, television and radio programs would be banned from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday. For former President Yitzhak Navon, 63, the dilemma cuts to the very heart of what Israel should be. "Are we going to live according to the laws of Moses or to the laws of Parliament?" he asks. "And who decides that?" Amos Oz argues that as a Jew, "I am free to decide what I will...
...survive/ He's criticized and condemned for being alive/ He's not supposed to fight back, he's supposed to have thick skin/ He's supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in/ He's the neighborhood bully." Union Sundown is an agitated piece about how dreams of workers and solidarity have been sold out by greed, while the song that ends the album, Don't Fall Apart on Me Tonight, combines tentative feelings of love with bleak reveries of fate in a way that no writer of simple love...
...hours that remained before sundown, when the Jewish Sabbath would begin, Tel Aviv's jubilant people danced in the streets, paraded with blue-&-white streamers and Star of David flags, prayed in their synagogues, with tears and cheers waved off truckloads of Haganah youths headed for the frontiers...