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Because of the prevalence of construction workers around Lowell and Winthrop, Bossert has asked Cayer to assign a special-duty policeman to guard the premises but has not yet received a response. Cayer could not be reached for comment yesterday...
...United Nations General Assembly session that convenes in New York City late this month. If his soundings are favorable, Shultz is prepared to tour Middle East capitals this fall to develop more specific ideas for getting these talks started. Once negotiations begin, if they do, the Administration may assign a special presidential envoy to watch over them full time...
Both within and without Mexico, there is wide agreement that López Portillo is attacking the symptoms of his country's disease rather than the root causes, for which many assign him the blame. After taking office in 1976, López Portillo launched an overly ambitious industrial expansion program and lavished money on an effort to transform the country into a Third World power. He provided cheap oil and other aid to Central American neighbors. Riddled with corruption, his government has a payroll loaded with jobs that do not really exist. López Portillo...
...vowing to keep mum may not stop the harassment. Local papers will often assign a team of four or five reporters to badger jurors in the first days after a trial. Says the New York Post's combative Steve Dunleavy: "I love to get inside a juror's head." Anthea Frankl sat on the White Plains, N.Y., murder trial growing out of the Stouffer's Inn fire that killed 26 business executives. She saw so many newspeople that she began to rate them, from the New York Times ("totally ethical") to a local Westchester County, N.Y., paper...
...Hossein Moussavi spelled out those terms and stressed Khomeini's intractable demand that Saddam Hussein must go before peace can be restored. The Algerians, according to a senior Iranian diplomat, suggested that one way to break the impasse would be to create an international commission that would assign guilt in the gulf war and thus presumably condemn Saddam Hussein for his initial invasion of Iran. But Moussavi rejected the idea and declined to modify his position. Said he: "Iran will accept Algerian mediation if it helps to achieve the Iranian conditions...