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...Tunis, at least one P.L.O. official would admit that there were "quite a few positive things" in the Peres speech, notably the reference to an international forum. The same official said that his organization was "pretty confident" that Hussein would never deal directly and independently with Israel. The King and Arafat are expected to meet this week in Amman...
...staffer is asked. For many critics, the Sauter-Joyce news approach was symbolized by West 57th, a briskly edited magazine show with four young hosts and a predilection for pieces about rock stars and religious cults. Some veterans, including Hewitt, publicly castigated the show, though a few early doubters admit that the program grew better during its six-week run last summer. Now on a planned hiatus, West 57th is due back on the air at year...
Administration officials admit that they have been indulging at least one prejudice. "There is a conscious attempt," says Rees, "to avoid appointing people who will be on the bench only a few years." Typically, too, appointees are male and white. Only four of Reagan's judges are black, eleven Hispanic, and 22 female. The long-term impact of younger white male appointments is troubling to liberal activists like Elaine Jones of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. "They will just be hitting their stride in 15 years," she says. "In any question that pits the rights of the individual...
While companies are reluctant to admit that they have been targets of dirty tricks, experts say that such crimes are on the increase. The potential for disaster is frightening. Software sabotage could alter data in computers at banks and stock brokerages or send false signals to air traffic controllers. That could mean the loss of millions of dollars or hundreds of lives...
Research for a recent anthology, Cowboy Poetry: A Gathering, by Hal Cannon of the Western Folklife Center in Salt Lake City, turned up about 5,000 poems by contemporary cowboys (known in their slang as waddies) and ranchers. "If you got to talking to most cowboys, they'd admit they write 'em," says Knox. "I think some of the meanest, toughest sons of bitches around write poetry." The first poem Knox penned more than a decade ago describes a barroom brawl he lost, and he's been at it ever since...