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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip: The Palestinian National Council voted Wednesday to remove clauses calling for the destruction of Israel from its charter. The 504-54 vote is a major victory for PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, who won clear backing to continue peace negotiations with Israel despite the Israeli's closing of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. TIME's Jamil Hamad reports from the West Bank that anti-Israel sentiment is running high in the wake of Israel's closing of the two Palestinian areas after a string of suicide bombings in February and March. "The economy is in very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLO Ends Its Call to Arms | 4/24/1996 | See Source »

...suburban White Plains and to college at Middlebury in Vermont, where he was the only black in his class--and, more tellingly, the first one in the local chapter of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. His frat brothers liked him so much that they defied the whites-only charter to pledge him. As a newly commissioned Army second lieutenant en route to a post in Virginia, he was so naive about what it could mean to be black in America that when a waitress at a segregated Newport News, Virginia, drive-in refused to serve him and his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dividing Line: RONALD HARMON BROWN: 1941-1996 | 4/15/1996 | See Source »

Maybe the Harvard final clubs should charter weekend buses for overnights to Barnard. Too far? Perhaps you final club guys could arrange a package deal with the Delta Shuttle so as to spend less time on travel and more time on "business." Why limit your options to the pool of all women's colleges in Massachusetts? Oh, I almost forgot--while your free mileage may not include stops to co-ed schools, you nevertheless extend visiting privileges to their women...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Off to Wellesley | 3/15/1996 | See Source »

...then, you know, what did he expect to do now?" Perhaps she will be the one to institute many of the programs developed under Reeves' administration. For example, the Technology 2000 initiative, which seeks to place a computer in every classroom, must be vigorously pursued. And current talk about charter or magnet schools should also be followed up with serious consideration. Just as the school system evolved from a dual system of technical and scholastic education into the unified Rindge & Latin secondary school, so Cambridge's educational structure must again evolve to prepare youth for the New Economic Order based...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mayor Russell Should Be Activist | 3/7/1996 | See Source »

...Francis H. Duehay '55, acting mayor and acting school committee chair, ruled that the election of a vice-chair was an ongoing issue for the committee, since the city charter calls for an election of the vice-chair at the first committee meeting of the year. Duehay is a member...

Author: By R. ALAN Leo, | Title: Mayoral Clash Sees Results In Schools | 2/26/1996 | See Source »

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