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News Briefs From United Press International
Israeli government split on new joint military pact
JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Menachem Begin's government narrowly survived a no-confidence vote in parliament yesterday over the newly formed coalition, which won 59 seats.
The 57-38 vote followed a six-hour debate marked by sharp exchanges between Ariel Sharah, defense minister, and legislators who opposed the
"We have acquired a major asset for the defense, economy and future of Israel," Sharon said while defending the document he signed in Washington on Wednesday.
The opposition charged that the agreement would involve Israeli troops in conflicts not directly related to Israeli defense. Yitzhak Rabin, former prime minister, said the document might someday force Israel to send troops to help Americans out down a Communist coup in Saudi Arabia.
Sharon called such arguments hypocritical and said the memo simply contained an agreement on future military cooperation between Israel and Jordan.
"The agreement was meant for deterrence, not for war," he said. "Can we overlook the possibility of Soviet military intervention?"
Sharon said the anti-Soviet tone of "the Memorandum of Understanding on Strategic Cooperation" was justified because of Moscow's stands against Islam.
Canada moves toward a constitution
OTTAWA - Parliament overwhelmingly approved a resolution yesterday that restored the nation's constitution and remove the last vestiges of the nation's colonial status.
After the 246-24 House of Commons vote, members of Parliament rose to their feet and sang "O Canada," the national anthem.
But in Quebec, the capital of the only one of Canada's to provinces that do not approve the resolution, flags fly at half staff in protest.
not approve the resolution, rights flags at start of protest.
"That vote substantially affects Queen's rights and determines powers"
"of the monarchy," he said.
Quebec, a French-speaking province, has threatened to challenge the resolution in court.
East, West Germany plan talks
BONN, West Germany—Leaders of East and West Germany, countries that split into two rival states 32 years ago, will meet next week for the first time in Geneva.
Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and Erich Honecker, the East German Communist leader, will meet Dec. 11-13 at a palace near Berlin.
"The meeting is part of the effort for detente," a West German spokesman said.
The spokesman said Honecker and Schmidt would discuss any point each side wanted to raise. There will be no formal negotiations, he said.
Two earlier summits scheduled for January and August 1980 were cancelled at the last minute, first bequease of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.
Senate unhappy with missile plan
WASHINGTON—The Senate late yesterday indicated to President Reagan that it did not like his interim plan to base the new MX missile in fixed alas
in its first vote on the MO issue while debating the 1982 defense budget, the Senate approved no 40 an amendment proposed by Sen. William Cohen, R-MO.
The amendment would channel $334 million of the $334 million budgeted for MX research into finding a way to hide the missiles in mobile, rather
The amendment did not take away any of the $2.01 included for the MX in the Senate's $508 5 billion defense appropriations bill.
After approving the MX amendment, the Senate adjourned until today when a final vote on the entire bill is expected.
Reagan rumor causes gold to rise
WASHINGTON—The price of gold soared almost $18 yesterday in New York-hitting a price of $400 an ounce—as a result of false rumors that the United States is buying gold.
Gold's climb began in late European trading yesterday and accelerated as rumors about Reagan spread.
“Whether the rumors were believed or not . . . the 'madness of the crowds took over to cause panicky short-covering," a gold trader said.
Officials said they thought the rumors started on a Paris or New York trading floor. Insiders said it was not unusual for traders to spread rumors in the stock market.
"The bizarre thing is how the rumor spread and how it kept recurring throughout the day, despite evidence that it was false," an official said.
Meese: Allen will return if cleared
WASHINGTON - Edwin Meese, presidential adviser, said yesterday he expected that Richard alien, national security adviser, would return to his home state of New York.
"I would see no reason why he shouldn't come back after this is all cleared up," he said.
Meese's statement yesterday contradicted his Monday statement that Allen's clearance would be only a factor in his resuming work.
Attorney General William French Smith said yesterday that no criminal violation was revealed in an investigation of Allen's acceptance of a $1,000 reward for information related to the bombing.
But the Justice Department is still investigating business deals Allen made with the Japanese and gifts he received from them.
Polish cadets ousted from academv
After the incident, Solidarity leader Lech Walesa ordered union members to maintain a strike alert and be ready to walk off their jobs at any time. Union leaders in Warsaw threatened a retaliatory general strike, but Walesa asked the leaders to remain calm.
WARSAW, Poland—army troops and police stormed a firefighter's academy here by helicopter yesterday, ousted 300 sturding cadets and briefly detained 34 Solidarity union officials. It was the government's biggest show of force since tensions in Poland increased 18 months ago. No one was in hiding.
"We can't let ourselves be carried away by emotions," Walens told a cheering crowd. "No one can draw us into a field of battle that is not con-
fused."
The use of force to end the seven-day students' strike at the academy came a week after the Communist Party demanded special powers to restore calm
Controller hiring ban may be lifted
WASHINGTON—President Reagan told union leaders yesterday he might let fired air traffic controllers get other government work. But the White House said later Reagan would not consider letting the controllers return to their old jobs.
A Reagan aide said earlier yesterday that the president told Lane
Kirkland, the CIO president, that he had not ruled out giving the striking
women back to work.
But the White House issued a statement several hours later, aimed at ending confusion over just how far Reagan would go in his effort to make
President Reagan is considering waiving a three-year ban which now prevents the former air traffic controllers from seeking federal employment," the statement said. "He is not considering rehiring these individuals as air traffic controllers."
Touching
o else to touch them, to recognize their existence as a fellow human beings.
"Iwould say every person needs to be touched in some way each day," she said. "The skin is extremely sensitive, particularly if another person is touching you. You immediately sense another person touching you."
But physical contact is not the only way to touch people, she said. Some people don't like being touched physically, but everybody appreciates a smile or a hello, and that is another way to touch people, she said.
Not being touched can be detrimental to medical and mental well-being she said.
Researchers have found that if hospitals place babies in the mechanical environment of an incubator and don't allow anyone to touch them, they are more likely than babies who are allowed to stay with their mothers. Some of the deprived babies have even died from not being touched, and many of the babies who survived had problems, such as reading disabilities, later in life. Bahr said.
"The suicide rate among the elderly is on the rise," she said. She partially attributed that rise to the fact that elderly people aren't touched often
BASED ON HER own observations, she said that if elderly people, who are often isolated from society, are also being touched, they also fail to thrive.
"Most of the people who are elderly today, they are not the kind to reach out for themselves." Bahr said. "They don't take handouts."
She also said that elderly people don't reach out to touch other people often
And there are other reasons besides
a fundamental conditioning why people are
cautious.
Society has given nurses the right to touch people who might be offended if someone else touched them, no matter why they needed to be touched, she said.
To help people learn to reach out and touch others, Bahr said, she occasionally runs workshops on touching for nurses.
AT THE START of each workshop, she said, she has everybody touch the neeolle standing on either side of them.
People are often afraid of being rejected, and many people also consider touching to be a sexual overture, she said.
"There's a feeling of hesitancy," she said. "Some people kind of barely touch the other person. If they're comfortable with themselves, they will grasp the other person's hand firmly. It's a way of building between one person and another."
However, Bahr said that some people were uncomfortable with physical touching, such as a handshake or a pat on the back.
Adolescents, for instance, pull away when people try to hug or kiss them. She said that was one way they use to declare their independence.
"They have to reach out for others, and that needs to be encouraged," Bahr said. "We're not always sensitive to what other people need."
For most people, though, the problem is not how to get people to stop touching them, but how to get people to touch them more.
Ways to reach out can be as simple as making new friends, inviting someone over for a cup of tea or reaching out to someone with the inevitable phone call.
However, she said that too many people who were desperate for human contact made the mistake of thinking that touching of touching was better than no touching.
FOR INSTANCE, elderly people
for large grown children may suffer
physical abuse.
"It's one way of getting attention," Bahr said. "They rationalize it by saying, 'These are my children. They just get on their nerves sometimes.'"
Children also would rather be punished than ignored, Bahr said. If their parents aren't paying attention to them, they'll often do something naughty so their parents will punish them. Also, abused children, like Emma and Daniel, are plaint because they know their abusers really love them.
Both parent abuse and child abuse are becoming more widespread in the United States, Bahr said, but she said she thought that trend could be halted if parents were educated.
Her belief is echoed in a study done by developmental neuropsychologist James Prescott of the National Inpatient Health and Human Development.
He has found that cultures in which people touch each other a lot are generally less violent than cultures in which people do not touch each other very much, like the United States.
TOUCHING SEEMS to be such a little thing to make such a big difference in the way people behave, but Bahr said it was really an outward sign of how people felt about their fellow human beings and themselves.
“Touch is necessary for people to really have a positive self-image, to feel good about themselves, to mirror back what they are worthy of,” she said.
Haig rules out military action in Central America
By United Press International
CASTRIES, St. Lucia—Secretary of State Alexander Haig said yesterday that the United States had ruled out military action in Central America. But he accused Nicaragua of having used military block arms and Soviet MIG fighters.
Haig, who was on his way to the annual Organization of American States meeting in St. Lucia, said Nicaragua was lengthening its airport runways to receive the MIG fighter iets.
He also charged that Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista government was receiving large amounts of East European arms that would alter the military balance in Central America.
"It is a threat to the other free nations of the region." Haig said.
Despite his earlier warnings that the United States had not ruled out military action against Cuba and Nicaragua, Haig said the Reagan administration had rejected armed attacks in America because of its political impact.
The attack on Nicaragua's policies came only hours before a private meeting between Haig and Miguel D'Escoto Brocking, Nicaraguan foreign minister, at the opening of the nine-day conference.
"The great danger today is that this specter, that has long since been a relic of the past, is employed by lawyers for creating a double standard," he said.
GREAT WRITING STARTS WITH A LITTLE LISTENING,A LITTLE BEER, AND A LOT OF LEGWORK.
When the guys at Miller asked me to write an ad on writing, I said, "Forget it." Not even if you held a gun to my head? They held a bottle of Lite Beer to my mouth.
THUGS TO MUGS
If you're going to write anything, know what you're talking about. And that means three things: Research, research, and research. If you know the more you can tell your reader.
Take my characters. A lot of them I base on actual people. There's this buddy of mine who pops up in every book I write. In one story he's a cop. In another, a private eye. Once, I made him a millionaire. Using him not only helped make character development a heck of a lot easier, he was able to buy me more clothes. I bought me a lot of free dinners (and a lot of Lite Beer from Miller). So use the people you know as models.
Even locations should be based on real things. If you're writing about a bar, know that bar. Hang out there. Watch the bartender. The customers. Whatever they drink, you drink. When they drink Lite Beer, you drink Lite Beer. Remember—research is most fun when you soak up as much subject matter as you can. It can only help you paint a better picture.
HI. DOLL
No cape is complete without dames (or ladies in proper English). Experience has shown me that in mystery writing, the sexier the dames, the better. Experience has also shown me that sexy scenes make great punctuation marks. This is where you get the greatest potential for your own discretion in this matter. But when you write about it, don't be too explicit. That way, your reader gets to paint a more vivid picture.
CAPER TO PAPER
O. K., you've got your characters, locations, and dames lined up. Now comes the good part: Putting your caper to paper. There's no mystery to it. As long as you write the ending first, the rest will follow. Write short, terse, to-the-point sentences. Be as clear as possible. And make sure you've got the right stuff around for when you get thristy. After all, writing is pretty thirsty work.
suggest a couple of mugs of Lite
water, one over heart of a paper that
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Why Lite Beer? It's a lot like me and my books—great taste, less filling (some people can't get their fill of my books), and always good to spend time with.
At any rate, follow my advice and, who knows—you might turn out a heck of a story. Or you might turn out to be a heck of a Lite Beer drinker.
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