Foreign Minister Krzysztof Skubiszewski today openly challenged Moscow to take its troops home, and pointedly raised the possibility of abrogating the treaty that gives the Soviet Union the legal right to keep its forces in Poland.

But it is clear that the request touches a nerve here, raising pointedly the critical question of whom the Jewish homeland belongs to at a time when Israeli relations with the Jewish diaspora are strained.

Mr. Dole's aides wanted him to pointedly raise questions about the President's character, but advised him against overkill.

But not since President Gerald R. Ford granted clemency to former President Richard M. Nixon for possible crimes in Watergate has a Presidential pardon so pointedly raised the issue of whether the President was trying to shield officials for political purposes.

"Father, I should like you to hear my confession," Javan said, pointedly raising his voice slightly when Father Lior would have approached from where he had been kneeling in the back of the chapel.

The President cheered up his debate coaches immensely this morning, in a practice in the Old Executive Office Building, when, halfway through, he pointedly raised his wrist and looked at his watch.

Others are pointedly raising the question of hypocrisy, noting that today's fierce anti-Communists were not nearly so brave when the country was in the iron grip of the old regime.

Reports on Israel's state radio and television tonight pointedly raised the possibility that the measures, particularly those against journalists, might be continued indefinitely.

When the accounts obtained by The Times were made public, they opened a new dimension to the discussions about fire operations that day and pointedly raised questions about whether some of the department's deaths might have been avoided.

Since Ms. Doniger raises the issue so pointedly, it seems appropriate to ask: What should we expect from scholars?