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...Inside a 17th century Benedictine monastery on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, across the Grand Canal from the Doge's Palace, the Europeans spent several hours deliberating their Middle East policy statement. Giscard, who had long been out in front in favor of Palestinian self-determination, wanted the statement to call for outright "participation" of the P.L.O. in negotiations. In the end, faced with opposition from Denmark and The Netherlands and, most of all, by West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, he conceded that such wording was premature; the conferees agreed to use the less provocative term "associate...
...size and strength, its human and natural richness, the U.S.S.R. remains strangely impoverished, even cursed. While its gross national product is second only to that of the U.S. ($2.4 trillion vs. $1.4 trillion), it ranks 17th in The Book of World Rankings on a scale of combined social and economic indicators, after such countries as Sweden, Australia and Iceland...
...committee on degrees in History and Literature found a new chairman in Barbara K. Lewalski, an authority on 17th century literature. Currently an English professor at Brown University, Lewalski will not arrive here until the fall...
...also may have chosen the name because of a 17th century Genoese painter named Matteo Picasso, though he always denied this...
...literary lions, including Percy Bysshe Shelley and George Orwell. In their day, these illustrious personages, like all new boys, were on call to serve tea, run errands, and polish boots of top seniors. Eton was founded in 1440 by Henry VI, but fagging did not begin until the 17th century. The young servants are called fags, their service fagging, because in the 1660s "to fag" meant to toil...