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...Washington cite him as having prevented attempts by Sen Jesse Helms (D.N.C) to stop the Supreme Court of jurisdiction on civil rights issues such as busing, abortion and school prayer. The failure of the proposed Helms-Johnson Amendment, according to many observers, helped preserve the independence of the judiciary branch...
...Harvard branch of Amnesty International (AI), along with three other college branches, apparently helped gain the release of a Pakistani political prisoner last month...
...large force in Lebanon, certain that the Israelis, the U.S. Marines and the other members of the Multi-National Force will decide to withdraw on their own. But the Syrian President is also mindful of the rise of a moderate Arab bloc whose members include Egypt, Jordan and the branch of the Palestine Liberation Organization that remains loyal to Chairman Yasser Arafat. This group, which is almost certain to gain the support of Saudi Arabia and Iraq, is likely to become far more influential than Syria in dealing with the Palestinian problem. Such a development could in turn pose...
...Syria, Libya, South Yemen and perhaps others. At present, such action would require the unanimous support of league members, but King Hussein of Jordan may try to have the rules changed, enabling Egypt to be readmitted by a simple majority vote. In the meantime Egypt, Jordan and the Arafat branch of the P.L.O. plan to meet in March or April to formulate a new approach for negotiating the future status of the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip...
...need a warm, inviting place to do business," explains Stephen Ward, security director for the Crocker Bank. Nor are more secure designs necessarily worth the cost: for all the heists, the banks lose only $4 million a year to robbers, or an untroubling average of around $1,300 per branch. The public, of course, picks up the cost of apprehending, prosecuting and jailing the robbers...