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That afternoon, as I bade goodbye to my Cabinet, Muskie brought more bad news. Christopher, normally an optimist, was discouraged because the Algerians' sense of urgency seemed to have vanished. We decided that Christopher should inform Benyahia that our authority would expire at noon the next day; his plane should stand by for his departure from Algiers at that time. We hoped this order would impress on the Algerians and the Iranians that there was a deadline: noon, Tuesday, Jan. 20. After that, neither Christopher nor I could speak for the U.S., and the entire negotiations might have...
Quite shrewdly, Shakespeare brings Hotspur and Hal together only for the climatic personal duel at the play's end Here director Coe has made a serious mistake He bade his fight master. B H Barry, to stage the combat so that Hotspur repeatedly gains the advantage and could dispatch the Prince, but repeatedly chooses through sheer bravado to spare Hal and permit him to rearm Hal's combative skill is thus cheapened, and his eventual victory is made hollow, the result of mere chance. (It is, by the way, not known who slew the historical Hotspur...
...violated both a 1950 Jordanian law, retained by the Israelis after the 1967 occupation, forbidding the collection or publication of "statistical data" without prior permission, and two Israeli military regulations for the occupied territories. One of the Israeli rules banned publication of material of "political significance"; the other for bade "publishing, in writing or orally, praises, sympathy or support of a hostile organization." The Israeli authorities accused PORI of using "a member of a Palestinian Arab terrorist group" to canvass public opinion. They arrested that polltaker and confiscated some of his data. None of the seized material was used...
Unwilling, or even unable, to pay the towering bond market rates, many localities, like corporations, have begun borrowing in the short-term market. Now, however, some are reaching the limit of their ability to do so. Bade County, Fla., which encompasses Miami, has run up $200 million in short-term debt, and county commissioners believe that is about as much as the county's taxpayers can afford. As a result, if rates do not ease back to more tolerable levels, the commissioners may wind up having to pick and choose among a long list of public projects, from seaport...
...Power and Light Co. to burn in its generators (732 Ibs. of marijuana equal 1 bbl. of oil, one of the odder statistics to emerge from the region). Yet officials estimate that perhaps as much as ten times the amount seized was smuggled into the region. At the moment, Bade County police have a stash of 162,000 Ibs. of marijuana waiting to be entered as evidence in court cases. The Customs Service has 200 seized cigarette boats and 50 airplanes, including a World War II-era A26 bomber that was, ironically, used by Customs agents on drug cases before...