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Israel's friends?most notably, many in Washington?are also worried about the government's secret settlement policy, which seems likely to become more overt in a Begin regime. New Israeli settlements?most of them on land that was once owned by Palestinians?surround Jerusalem and separate the major Arab population centers from Jordan. Sewer systems, water lines, and roads clearly indicate that these communities are being built to last and that they will be linked to other ones still in the planning stage. The Palestinians are offered payment for the land, although most refuse it, complaining of unfairly...
Ever since oil drilling got under way in the North Sea back in the early 1960s, the nations that surround this stormy body of water have lived in dread of an environmental accident. Last week their worst fears were realized. As a team of specialists worked desperately to shut off the flow, oil spewed from a blown-out well in the Norwegian Ekofisk concession at a rate of some 4,000 tons a day. The spill drifted generally eastward in a slimy slick 32 kilometers (20 miles) long that not only threatened the coasts of Scandinavia but also seemed likely...
Last week's executions obviously have not solved the power struggle or its implication for Ethiopia, and the African nations that surround it are becoming increasingly edgy. Before long, onlookers predict, there is bound to be another Shootout in the fight for control of the Dergue. How many members will be left after that confrontation is anyone's guess...
...Weil's life history of self-punishment: her insistence as a child that she always carry the heaviest bundles on family trips; her stubborn rejection of all bourgeois fashion and living comforts; her willful insistence--while she held a well-salaried job with the Ministry of Education--to surround herself with only the bare necessities she thought the unemployed could afford...
...afforded fathers by their biographical daughters, Holly Stevens traces the origins of the rhetorician. The "green, hilly, sunny-cloudy place" becomes the setting for the quatrain known to all English majors: "I placed a jar in Tennessee,/ And round it was, upon a hill./ It made the slovenly wilderness/ Surround that hill...