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...Qiryat Shemona. Pickets carried signs outside the King David Hotel, where the Secretary of State was staying, attacking "Mohammed Ivanovich Kissinger." "This was moral cynicism," said one Cabinet-level Israeli diplomat angrily, "the sort of action we would expect from the French." To Israelis, the vote was a symptom of the new U.S.-Arab friendship, which Kissinger is constructing, they fear, at Israel's expense. Another unsettling point was that last week's meeting came at an unpropitious time. Israel is still undergoing a domestic political crisis resulting from the widespread disenchantment with its leaders' conduct...
...Another symptom of the void at the top was Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz's unilateral decision two weeks ago to buy $45 million worth of beef for the Government's school-lunch program, in an attempt to prop up beef prices. Butz's decision came as a complete surprise to the COLC'S food policy committee, which is chaired by Shultz, and provoked an angry reaction from Dunlop, who has greeted recent declines in prices of grain and livestock with undisguised pleasure...
...nature most immediately sensitive to changes in response, since its offerings are constantly (and financially) tested by audiences: there must be uninterrupted mass appeal...plays register changes in the public temper more quickly, more openly...than do private forms," wrote Eric Rothstein in Restoration Tragedy. Drama is a symptom and a symbol of a community turned toward reality or away from it. "Humankind cannot bear very much reality," wrote T.S. Eliot, but neither, one might add, can it afford to have too little. And this spring, escapes with or without clothes to lands where "troubles melt like lemon drops...
Speakers, including Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics at MIT, last night criticized the alleged U.S. role in the November Greek military coup, terming it a symptom of American international imperialism...
...rents go up rapidly. This makes property values go up, too. And when a building is sold at a higher value, the rent goes up again--to pay for higher mortgage and property tax costs, which are based on the property value. This vicious cycle is a major symptom of the housing crisis today...