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...hula hoop, and left these two groups without a musical home. The Rumour formed as a studio band for gas-station-attendant-turned-songwriter Graham Parker, and have had trouble appearing from behind his shadow. Their problem is not musical ability; they play everything from Motown to reggae to Abba, all with their own, flawless sound...
...party list, the 120-candidate roster from which the voters will select the new Knesset members. Because the percentage of the popular vote determines how many on the list will be elected, places at the top are the prizes. The jockeying for position can be fierce. One party heavyweight, Abba Eban, a former Foreign Minister, was previously No. 2 after Peres; now he is No. 3. To soothe his feelings, former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Peres' bitter rival, was moved from 20th position to fourth...
...Jerusalem, Haig met with Prime Minister Menachem Begin for 4½ hours and breakfasted with Shimon Peres and Abba Eban, leaders of the opposition Labor coalition. Haig found the Israelis warmly receptive to his strategic views. Said Begin of Haig's anti-Soviet clarion call: "It is not an artificial alarm. The free world is shrinking and is in permanent danger." Haig also pleased his Israeli hosts by denouncing the Syrian assault on Christian Phalangists in Lebanon last week as brutal-an apparent reversal of longstanding U.S. policy to remain neutral in the festering Lebanese conflict...
Wrong, if you said Volvo or Bjorn Borg. It is ABBA, the world's top-selling recording group. But six-year-old ABBA, an acronym for Members Agnetha Faltskog, 31, Bjorn Ulvaeus, 35, Benny Anderson, 34, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad, 35, earns only part of its income from rock 'n' roll. Much of it comes from sidelines-like importing oil, leasing computers, investing in real estate and running one of the largest art galleries in Europe. These and other enterprises, owned by ABBA and its manager Stig Anderson, 50, netted roughly $20 million on sales...
...resigned to a lengthy delay in the negotiations. One inducement to Egyptian patience is the prospect that elections next year in Israel may bring in a new and more flexible government headed by the Labor Party. Earlier this month, Israeli Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres, former Foreign Minister Abba Eban and former Chief of Staff Haim Bar-Lev visited Cairo to take part in a symposium on the Palestinian problem sponsored by the Egyptian magazine October. Sadat took the opportunity to meet with the Israelis and discuss their mutual concerns...