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...moment-that moment being Sept. 26, 1789-the capital is New York, and so this week Mayor Abraham Beame and the editors of TIME are inviting some 200 notables from the worlds of politics and publishing to a party at the mayor's 18th century residence, Gracie Mansion. The purpose: to celebrate the publication this week of TIME'S second special Bicentennial issue, "The New Nation," with George Washington on the cover...
...Others are playing hard to get, even though there is no indication that Carter is willing to make any deals. Daley is thought to be willing to trade his endorsement for a promise from Carter to choose Illinois Senator Adlai Stevenson as his running mate. New York Mayor Abraham Beame wants Carter to spell out what he would do as President for financially hard-pressed cities. To make it clear that they are not yet backing Carter, House Speaker Carl Albert and Senator Hubert Humphrey pointedly showed up at a coffee-and-doughnuts session in Washington for California Governor Jerry...
...John Dyson, who argued that forcing GE to meet such strict standards could force the plants to close and cost badly needed jobs. Meanwhile a state-appointed hearing officer has been taking testimony from both sides in the case. In a 77-page interim opinion issued last February, Professor Abraham Sofaer of Columbia Law School found GE "overwhelmingly" responsible for the PCB pollution of the Hudson and ordered it to take steps to reduce its discharges of the chemical. Sofaer also found that the state had "exercised insufficient caution and concern" in controlling PCB pollution of the river...
...marchers, most of whom are Orthodox Jews, belong to Israel's Gush Emunin (Group of the Faithful), who take Jehovah's commandment from the Book of Genesis with fanatic literalness. To them, it means that Jews, as Abraham's descendants, have a God-given birthright to the West Bank of the Jordan. For it was at Bethel that the Lord is said to have commanded Abraham...
Other people who also believe they are descendants of Abraham, the Israeli-occupied West Bank's 650,000 Arabs, were outraged by the march and what it symbolized. In Ramallah, about three miles south of the festive marchers at Bethel, throngs of Arabs from all over the West Bank gathered to mourn the death of a Ramallah man and a boy and show their solidarity against the Gush Emunin marchers and the Israeli occupation. The man, Kalil Issa, 42, was gunned down on the main street of Ramallah by a local councilman suspected of collaborating with the Israeli occupiers...