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...likely. To avoid such a showdown, Washington may be forced to reconsider its official policy of leaving the Israelis and Arabs to settle their own affairs and join with the Russians in an attempt to impose a peace settlement. The Administration already feels that Israel's discussions of various plans for settling occupied territories is a diplomatic blunder, reinforcing Arab claims that Israel is bent on expansion and likely to bring on irresistible popular demands for war. Israel has reacted angrily to U.S. pressures to return most of the occupied territories. Any additional attempt to impose a settlement would...
...group of five freshmen is running as a slate for positions on the Harvard Undergraduate Council in an effort to unite the freshman class behind various radical demands for change...
...that he attempts any solemn pronouncements on "The American Character"--Cooke is too wary and talented a journalist to tackle a subject as tangled and usually as dull as that. Rather, he gives an idea of what might be termed American styles--of how various Americans operate, of why class distinctions break down at baseball games or, of all places, at the Kentucky Derby...
...only to bring some glimpses of how people in one country behave to other nations for failing where those with more impressive credentials and a lifetime of experience don't have a record to be proud of. Talk About America doesn't try to give the answers to our various dilemmas, but it's a worthwhile book nonetheless--the sort of thing to pick up on a gloomy night when you're tired of reading riot commission reports, memoirs of draft resisters, and radical solutions for the ghettoes...
...Economic give-and-take from the various Vietnam zones...