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...must include a Jerusalem resident. The face-saving route around the impasse may lie in a house that al-Husseini has just completed in Ayn Siniya, a West Bank village 15 miles north of Jerusalem. Shamir, who has already rejected al- Husseini as a potential delegate, could backtrack and assert that al- Husseini is now a West Banker. And al-Husseini could take his seat, staunch in his conviction that he still speaks for Jerusalemites...
...only telephone, telex and radio communications possible are those that are routed through the front. The group blames the cutoffs on technical problems, but as time passes and no improvements are made, fewer Ethiopians believe that. Instead, the isolation appears to be part of a deliberate effort to assert Eritrea's independence...
...court, wrote that Russians were "kept from traveling that they may learn nothing, nor see the fashions of other countries" -- an observation that would still have been accurate a few years ago. Even today a powerful Slavophile movement regards Western ways as incompatible with the Russian character. Some Sovietologists assert apprehensively that the Slavophiles are making common cause with hard-line communists to form a strong anti-democratic bloc...
...emerging. In Illinois, California and Florida, children are fighting exclusion from the Boy Scouts based on their being atheist, agnostic or female. An assistant scoutmaster in California is battling an expulsion imposed because he is gay. And Boy Scout officials are rewriting popular mythology, if not history, to assert that the scouts are free to discriminate because they were always a private club rather than a public resource...
...Democratic Front that rules Addis Ababa has assured aid workers that they will be protected. The front also is making efforts to assert control over outlying areas where the government's collapse left citizens without a reliable supply line, for instance in the city of Dire Dawa, in the east. For their part, the Eritrean fighters who have assumed administration of Eritrea province, which includes all the country's ports, promise to allow food to flow freely through their territory...