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Otherwise, the Begin government did not fare well last week. Shareholders of Israel's 34-year-old national airline, El Al, which has long been plagued by deficits and labor unrest, voted to dissolve the company. Professors at Tel Aviv University were on strike, Foreign Ministry employees were threatening to stage a walkout, and truck drivers, angry about new taxes, were trying to block the main highway between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem...
RIVERSIDE., Calif.--In a protest reminiscent of the student unrest during the 1960s, approximately 200 students at the University of California at Riverside (UCR) last month staged a rally to fight the proposed dismantling of the Ethnic Studies programs...
Roots of Radicalism is dominated by lengthy excerpts form the authors' esoteric empirical studies of student protesters, conducted largely in the early 1970s. The book's conclusions about the unique role of Jewish neuroses in fomenting unrest range from the some-what obvious to the highly suspect. Yet more important is the factual material sprinkled liberally amid the Rorschach blots and data tables: tidbits of information that will compel the curious to investigate further the New Left's strange and unfortunate metamorphosis...
...Sabel region some years ago made clear, a sudden removal of trees can cause complete deterioration of agricultural land More alarmingly. Duncan Poore, a researcher at Oxford, has pointed out that loss of a large food sustaining area through such deterioration is "an important cause of political unrest and instability." Shrinking farmland area results in food shortages, and the declining number of trees makes the cost of wood skyrocket. In some areas of Africa, the price of fuel wood used to cook a meal actually exceeds the cost of the food...
...Pisar sees the greatest danger in the world in the economic dislocation that is sweeping the world. "Hitler was a progeny of unemployment and inflation, social unrest, and helpless politicians who could not cope." "Pisar observes, adding. "This is the stuff of which untold Holocausts are made...