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...stability to the Middle East, the U.S. must find a solution to the Palestinian issue on terms acceptable not merely to Israel but to the bulk of the Arab world as well. Israel's security can be maintained without thwarting the Palestinian drive for self-determination. The Israelis tend to equate this drive with "terrorism." But terrorism is only the ugly and dangerous symptom of the underlying issue of Palestinian autonomy that the West has faced up to only rarely in the past 34 years...
...surprisingly, therefore, the political picture in the Midwest is not as bleak for Reagan as it might be. Moreover, farmers tend to be conservative politically and well inclined toward Reagan's politics. Even those who disagree with his policies tend to admire the President's personal style, and doubt that they will readily abandon him. "I don't blame Reaganomics or anything the President has done," says John Ed Tarkington, 36, who raises rice and soybeans on his 1,900-acre farm near Almyra. Ark. "We are at the mercy of the market." Indeed, many farmers still...
Says M.I.T. Sociology Professor Sherry Turkle, an expert on the psychological impact of computer games: "The training could go two ways. It could have a numbing effect, making nuclear war more linkable, or it could heighten the revulsion. The computer is confronting us with something we tend to repress: the brute tact that we are playing with the survival of the planet...
...Paradise, on Common wealth Ave off the Green Line, is the top club in town, just short of the Orpheun and the Boston garden Covers are often steep, and shows tend to end rather promptly at midnight. Drinks, needless to say, are even more expensive then elsewhere. Since you can often see the same band at Swift's a day or two before or after the Paradise date, it pays to stay home in Cambridge...
Five questions tend to surface over and over when considering higher education with the up wardly mobile products of advantage...