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...some congressional critics think the aid total too high, particularly for Israel, the opposition Kissinger faces is mild compared with the criticism that Egypt's Sadat is getting from his supposed Arab friends. Syria's President Hafez Assad called the agreement "a serious attempt to fragment and weaken the Arab front." George Habash, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was more vitriolic. Habash, who is boycotting the Palestine Liberation Organization because he considers the P.L.O. too moderate, predicted that the Arab masses would soon "turn Sadat and his agreement into an irrelevant moment...
Although he denies direct intimations that Hurlburt and Butler were moved to positions where they would be out of the way, Hall's explanations weaken these denials: Hall now insists that Hurlburt was promoted, but he told The Crimson last year that the move had resulted after Hurlburt's "batteries had worn down" and he had been asked to take a year off to rest. The description Hall gave them of Hurlburt's new job--"primarily to watch over and settle disagreements that arise between the Med School and the administration"--hardly measures up to the title. In Butler...
...Continued price increases almost inevitably will bring on a rise in unemployment, which Healey indicated the Labor government does not intend to combat by reflating the economy. With unemployment already heading toward 1.5 million and beyond, the unions' resolve to cooperate with the government's program may weaken well before the twelve-month agreement expires. Left-wing Union Boss Ken Gill has already protested that "this wage control is about as voluntary as rape." His was a minority voice last week, but it may not remain...
...handed when it comes to other subjects, particularly people. The tendency to introduce herself and her reactions extraneously when writing about the other individual women in this book is one pitfall that Ephron slips right into. If often makes her appear condescending and unsympathetic, and it does much to weaken the important bond that Ephron established in her first essay...
Using the kind of argument that has always been favored by dictators seeking to justify their abrogation of political processes, Mrs. Gandhi declared: "In India, democracy has given too much freedom to people." Newspapers and opposition politicians, she added, "were trying to misuse [democracy] and weaken the nation's conscience...