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...investment in Egypt by foreign firms that are on the Arab League boycott list for dealings with Israel. Israeli cargoes, but not ships, will be allowed to pass through the Suez Canal. The U.S., meanwhile, will try to block anti-Israeli moves in the United Nations General Assembly and UNESCO...
...them ended up in Cairo's Coptic Museum. Yet because of scholarly rivalries and unsettled political conditions in Egypt, no comprehensive study of the entire find was undertaken until 1970, after Presbyterian Robinson, director of Claremont (Calif.) Graduate School's Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, got UNESCO to assemble a team for the painstaking process of piecing together and editing the 1,191 surviving pages. The first of eleven volumes of an English translation appeared earlier this year...
...time when the warring Arab nations continue to receive tons of Soviet war material for use against Israel, when Arab nations have expanded their economic boycott of Israel to include all companies doing business with her, when the United Nations sees fit to exclude Israel from UNESCO, when, in other words, the Arabs have used their oil power to perpetuate a calculated scheme to isolate Israel in the world community, one comes to the realization that the U.S. should offer Israel the vital means with which she may insure her survival. Such is the case that U.S. support for Israel...
...positive dimension finds expression in the activities of several groups in the Harvard community. Among these are an undergraduate committee sponsoring speeches and discussions on the Arab-Israeli conflict in the Houses, the current campaign to raise money for the Israel Emergency Fund and the ad hoc committee on UNESCO and Israel. Active participation in constructive efforts such as these shows that the circle of ambivalence can be broken...
...nations of Western Europe appear willing to bargain away Israel's security in return for access to Arabian oil. Arab petropower seems aimed at blacklisting Jews from many transactions in international finance, causing President Gerald Ford last week sharply to condemn such practices (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). Last fall UNESCO voted to exclude Israel from some of its activities, and the United Nations General Assembly applauded the Palestine Liberation Organization's Yasser Arafat, who frankly spoke at the U.N. of generations of war against Israel, as a legitimate spokesman for Palestinians...