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Despite the penalty, clusters of teachers kept up the strike, often marching in picket lines inside the "buffer zones" set up for antibusing demonstrators near such trouble-prone schools as South Boston and Charlestown. Administrators and teacher aides tried to hold some classes, with indifferent success. "I've got seven kids," said one South End mother, "and there's no way I can keep them home. But they're not really learning very much in school this week...
...cosmopolitan country. Karami last week made a new attempt to pull his nation of 3 million people back together again by proposing a "Committee of National Reconciliation" comprising representatives of Lebanon's various religious and political groups. Syria, which is anxious to maintain a stable Lebanon as a buffer along Israel's northern border, also entered the peace-making effort. Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam arrived in Beirut late in the week to help negotiate the fragile ceasefire...
...last week, aimed at Palestinian camps in the south). Finally a compromise was worked out: Ghanem was ordered on leave. He was replaced by Brigadier General Hanna Said, a Maronite officer less objectionable to Moslems, who was quickly promoted. Two thousand soldiers were then ordered to set up a buffer zone between battling forces without entering either Tripoli or Zgharta, which might provoke an encounter...
TROOP SHIFTS. Israel will give up the strategic Giddi and Mitla passes, which will become part of a demilitarized buffer zone patrolled by the U.N. Emergency Force. Israeli troops will move from twelve to 30 miles eastward; the Egyptians will advance two to nine miles eastward. The buffer zone between them will thus be greatly widened, reducing the chances of an accidental clash. Israel, however, will retain mountains overlooking the eastern part of the two passes, the large Bir Gifgafa airbase just northeast of the Giddi Pass, and the Umm Khisheib electronic monitoring station northwest of the Giddi Pass...
...Where would each army be positioned and what would be the depth of the buffer zone separating them...