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...such services as schools and bus transportation. But Begin's support for the communities last week also whetted Gush Emunim's desire to expand Jewish presence in the territories. The organization has recruited families to establish twelve more settlements on the West Bank, and threatens demonstrations unless the government authorizes them by September. Although Begin will probably impose a moratorium on new settlements until the Geneva Conference reconvenes, he pointedly told newsmen last week that there was no government freeze on establishment of new communities...
...life. If it chooses human life, let it withdraw its heavy investments that support [the white regimes in] southern Africa. I like to believe the West can salvage what is already half lost. We give the situation in South Africa three years, and then it is bound to explode unless certain changes have taken place. But this is not a case of Communists telling South Africans what to do, or of Marxists telling the people of Zimbabwe they are oppressed. There is no need for that: it is obvious...
...tricky maneuvers and performing routine tasks with little dash and less speed. Unlike North, Hood stays at the helm, and unlike Turner, he does not use it as a soapbox, never shouting at an erring crewman. "I'm slower and more easygoing," Hood explains. "I never gamble unless I'm sure the odds are 3 to 1 in my favor. I'm more of a percentage sailor...
Author Robert Coover, 45, is not a household name, unless the house happens to be a college dormitory. An on-and-off teacher, Coover has won a campus reputation as an avant-gardist who can do with reality what a magician does with a pack of cards: shuffle the familiar into unexpected patterns. Devotees religiously pass along The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., an eerie tale of a recluse who invents and maintains an eight-team baseball league and the lives of hundreds of players. First editions of his first novel (The Origin of the Brunists) and a collection of short...
...proposes that no student can declare his independence unless his parents have not claimed him as a tax deduction for two years; further, he may live at home for only six weeks during the year he receives aid as well as the year prior to his grant. HEW hopes that the new rules will shake loose more federal money for students who really need it-unless, of course, middle-income taxpayers start planning even farther ahead and farm the kids out to live with the relatives...