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...almost every reasonable formula proposed for getting the parties involved back to Geneva. Although Syria balked, Egypt readily endorsed, with minor reservations, the working paper that Carter and Vance negotiated with Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan between U.N. meetings in New York last month. In essence, this formula called for a united Arab delegation containing some Palestinian representation, but no known members of the P.L.O. There would be specific negotiations between six subgroups?Israel and Egypt, for example, or Israel and Syria?on the basis of U.N. Resolutions 242 and 338, which call for return of occupied
...this point of swelling disbelief that Sadat was serious, Menachem Begin showed that he too could be an innovative statesman. Although he may privately have been trying only to call Sadat's bluff, the Israeli Premier accepted Sadat's proposal. The commitments were firmed up, in an extraordinary act of television diplomacy, during interviews with Anchorman Walter Cronkite on last Monday's CBS Evening News (see box). Begin thereupon summoned the Knesset to provide the necessary authorization...
...every shape and size, and has the latest scientific gadgetry. Yet there is something special about this particular lab at New York's Rockefeller University. For the past decade, its doctors, chemists and biologists have been engaged, largely unheralded, in an unusual task. They are fighting what they call "orphan diseases," a group of widely differing illnesses that have one thing in common: no one has done very much to develop drugs for them...
...guzzler tax An important conservation measure in the Carter plan was his call for steep taxes by 1985 on cars that get fewer than 27.5 m.p.g. The tax was to run as high as $2,488 for the worst guzzlers, and there would be rebates for fuel-efficient cars. The House lowered the mileage target to 23.5 m.p.g., but hiked the tax to a maximum of $3,856. The Senate scrapped the whole approach, and chose instead to write in a complete ban by 1985 on cars that get fewer than 21 m.p.g. The two minicommittees have yet to choose...
...birth control. The U.S. bishops' rapport with the Vatican, says President Quinn, is "good, because it's not bad." The U.S. hierarchy has rejected challenges to such Vatican policies as clerical celibacy and an all-male priesthood issued by diocesan delegates at last year's "Call to Action" meeting. But decisions are still pending on proposals made there for reform of the church and its social stance. Quinn says that one major task of his three-year term will be "an orderly plan" to carry out Call to Action recommendations...