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...relations last October when Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi urged Muslims not to make their annual pilgrimage to Mecca because he claimed that the shrine had been desecrated by U.S. radar surveillance planes flying overhead. And after the outbreak of the war between Iran and Iraq, the cartel had to cancel a gala meeting in Baghdad in November that was to have celebrated the group's 20th anniversary...
Their decision forced Mason to cancel plans for a Christmas marriage to a 29-year-old divorcee with whom he has taken up residence. Said he: "It's all right for the judges to say it is not unreasonable. I had to live with it." He hardly shares Brenda's hopes for a reconciliation and now must delay his second wedding 3½ years to satisfy a five-year living-apart provision that the 1969 law offers as another basis for divorce. His fiancee remains optimistic that everything will work out, even their desire to have children. Mason...
...Metropolitan Opera has been forced to cancel more than a third of its scheduled season by labor disputes, which were finally settled three weeks ago. Looking over his plans, Music Director James Levine concluded that "the losses for the future seem remarkably small." The house reopens next Wednesday, and the Met will begin performing such works as Alban Berg's Lulu, Tristan und Isolde and-holiday-minded families will be happy to hear-Hansel and Gretel. Two of the four new productions originally announced for this season-Queen of Spades and Così Fan Tutte-have been postponed...
That prospect has municipal leaders terrified. If the referendum goes into effect without state alteration, Cambridge will have to lay off thousands of employees and cancel hundreds of programs, city manager James L. Sullivan insists...
...specific weapons, Reagan has criticized Carter's decision to delay production of the neutron bomb and cancel the B-l bomber. Carter contends that the cruise missile has made the B-l obsolete but he has, with some campaign fanfare, suggested that a bomber employing "stealth" radar-baffling technology may be built instead. Both candidates support the new MX missile, although they differ about how the land-based weapon should be deployed...