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...Suez road. The talks were held -under U.N. supervision. But they were very protracted. I left at the time for Algiers to attend the Arab Summit Conference, and when I came back, the negotiations still hadn't got anywhere. I asked [Chief of Staff Mohammed Abdel] Gamassy to suspend them. "I am not prepared," I said, "to engage in this sort of haggling and bickering...
...amateurs is becoming highly visible in offices and stores, schools, courthouses, chapels, restaurants, apartment buildings and homes. The pieces may be room dividers, skylights or side lights, bathtub screens, doors, windows or-most significantly-hanging or freestanding "autonomous" works that can be displayed like paintings or sculptures or suspended in front of windows. As Lithuanian-born Artist Albinas Elskus notes: "You can actually suspend an image in midair. You cannot find any other material that does that...
Observers in Israel have suggested that the cabinet's decision represents an attempted compromise between the moderates who want to suspend settlement activity and extremists who have called for major new developments. In fact, neither the compromise nor the moderate position is acceptable: unless Israel not only suspends development of new settlements but withdraws from those already established in the Sinai, there is simply no chance of a peace settlement. The refusal of the Begin cabinet and particularly of the right wing of the Begin government's coalition to recognize this fact can only lead to a continued state...
...attempt at understanding a different culture, it is vital to consciously suspend one's cultural biases. The arguments and cross-examination of St. Clair, whose previous clients include a disgraced former president, actively violated this standard throughout the trial. St. Clair deliberately and subtly appealed to the prejudices--cultural and racist--of the jury. In his opening statement, St. Clair specified cultural assimilation, especially Indian intermarriage with blacks and whites, as one example of the Indians' failure to comprise a tribe. The ploy was an insidious one--St. Clair skillfully appealed to whatever prejudices the jury may have entertained against...
...often illegal FBI campaign of surveillance and sabotage against a wide variety of right-and left-wing groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, the Black Panthers and the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. Not until 1971, a year before his death, did Hoover, alarmed by the threat of exposure, suspend the program. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence exposed the full scope of COINTELPRO'S partly unconstitutional mission in 1975, but only last week did the full extent of the FBI's dirty tricks become public. Reporters from eight news organizations, who had demanded to see the files...