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...such a transformative war is the Six-Day War. It changed Israel from a weak, marginal refuge for refugees, clinging to the < shores of the Mediterranean, to the very symbol of self-reliance, power and valor. (An image subsequently transformed, of course, by ensuing violent upheavals, namely the Yom Kippur War, Lebanon and the intifadeh.) It is too early to assume that America will enjoy a similar triumph in the gulf war. But if this war should conclude half as decisively as the Six-Day War, America will not be the same...
WHEN a line from Adolph Hitler's Mein Kampf appeared in the Dartmouth Review's masthead on Yom Kippur, conservatives across the country picked sides. Some right-wingers, including William F. Buckley, rallied to the paper's defense, calling the incident a fake and the Dartmouth equivalent of the Tawana Brawley case. Others argued that the Review's patently offensive tactics discredited a more thoughtful conservative voice...
Perez speaks from experience. During an earlier term as President he led his country on a giddy spending spree when oil revenues soared after the Yom Kippur War and the Arab embargo brought on the first oil shock in 1973. Venezuela squandered billions of petrodollars on luxury imports, high- visibility public works and a bloated state bureaucracy. When oil prices fell in the early 1980s, Venezuela retreated behind a wall of protectionism and a popular though inefficient system of price supports for local products...
...issue published on the eve of Yom Kippur, Judaism's holiest day, the Review's masthead featured a quotation from Hitler's Mein Kampf, which read as follows: "I believe today that I am acting in the sense of the Almighty Creator. By warding off the Jews, I am fighting for the Lord's work...
WITH luck, the Yom Kippur incident will be the Review's downfall. The Dartmouth community has acted sensibly. Instead of trying to use disciplinary action against the Review's staff members, Freedman spoke at an anti-Review rally and condemned the magazine's "act of moral cowardice." The student assembly denounced the review for having "fostered an intolerance of diversity at the college...