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Nuclear Balance. As Soviet amphibious exercises gradually advance toward Denmark's shores, Danes have become concerned about a surprise attack. Says a high-level Danish officer; "There has been a vast erosion of our warning time in case of attack." The Danes talk about a "Yom Kippur War syndrome," recalling that in 1973 Cairo was able to surprise the Israelis partly because the Egyptian army had been pressing its maneuvers forward little by little and holding them frequently. Says a top Danish military official: "We must be careful that we do not accept the repetition of the unusual...
There are other novelties as well. The Essenes celebrated Yom Kippur, Succoth and Shavuot, but the Temple Scroll contains regulations for festivals that are unknown elsewhere in Judaism: the First Fruits of Wine and of Oil, and the Wood Offering, which lasted for six days...
...other hand, I think in a number of other ways he did some good things for this country, particularly in the foreign policy area, SALT I, the opening of relations with the People's Republic of China, the handling of the Middle East crisis during the Yom Kippur...
...More sugar is consumed on Christmas Day in America than on Easter, Halloween, and Yom Kipper combined...
...People he meets on a nearby kibbutz work in the fields until the afternoon, then listen to Mozart and discuss nuances of Goethe. An Arab who is mildly sym pathetic to Israel has his car blown apart by terrorists; Israelis confide pro-Palestinian sympathies. The nation, demoralized by the Yom Kippur War, is also torn-and sometimes transfigured-by diversity. Young violinists audition for Isaac Stern ("a death-defying act on four taut strings") while soldiers patrol gardens and political hawks call for takeovers of the West Bank. Israel, Bellow concludes, "is both a garrison state and a cultivated society...