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On November 10 the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution defining Zionism as "a form of racism and racial discrimination." The vote was 72-35 with 32 abstentions. A week earlier Abba Eban had written in the New York Times that "there is…no difference whatever between anti-Semitism and the denial of Israel's statehood. Classical anti-Semitism denies the equal rights of Jews as citizens within society. Anti-Zionism denies the equal rights of the Jewish people to its lawful sovereignty within the community of nations. The common principle in the two cases is discrimination." Mr. Eban's words, coming as they did, not in the midst of a pro-Israel rally, but in a reflective column from a widely respected figure in the international community, a man who has not hesitated to criticize publicly aspects of his own government's policies toward the Arabs, must be accorded a special seriousness.

A t certain times and places we come across special forms of language generated by some kind of anti‐society; these we may call "anti‐languages." An anti‐language serves to create and maintain social structure through conversation, just as an everyday language does; but the social structure is of a particular kind, in which certain elements are strongly foregrounded. This gives to the anti‐language a special character in which metaphorical modes of expression are the norm; patterns of this kind appear at all levels, phonological, lexicogrammatical, and semantic. The study of anti‐languages offers further insights into the relation between language and social structure, and into the way in which text functions in the realization of social contexts.

Within a decade, concern for the environment has become a significant social and political force around the globe. Chlorofluorocarbons and acid rains are not restricted by frontiers. The environmental problems we share with the rest of the world—finite supplies of land, clean water and air, and the cost of their destruction— mandate a recognition of our mutual vulnerability and a redefinition of concepts to focus more specifically on quality of life. The cost can only increase if we delay.

Within a decade, concern for the environment has become a significant social & political force around the globe. Chlorofluorocarbons & acid rains are not restricted by frontiers. The environmental problems we share with the rest of the world -- finite supplies of land, clean water, & air, & the cost of their destruction -- mandate a recognition of our mutual vulnerability & a redefinition of concepts to focus more specifically on quality of life. The cost can only increase if we delay. HA.

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