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Many voters are unhappy with the results of the second Sinai accord; they claim Israel got nothing of substance from Egypt in exchange for surrendering the Abu Rudeis oilfields and the Sinai passes. Last week the Cabinet recoiled when Rabin outlined the gist of a new U.S.-Israeli approach to further Middle East negotiations. To maintain diplomatic momentum, the U.S. has proposed continuing discussions among Israel, Egypt, Jordan and Syria, toward an "end of the state of war." When Rabin brought the proposal to his Cabinet, he was pinned down in a crossfire. Hawks accused the Premier of being ready...
...Yarmouth-Thor collision-there were no casualties-was the latest incident in the increasingly nasty "cod war" between Great Britain and Iceland (TIME, Dec. 29). What started out as a semicomical high seas skirmish over Iceland's unilateral claim last October to a 200-mile territorial fishing limit, has become a tense crisis for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Two weeks ago, Iceland broke diplomatic relations with Great Britain...
...economy. The tiny island country (pop. 219,000) wants more control over fishing rights in its coastal areas to maintain fish stocks, especially cod. Sales of cod account for fully 40% of Iceland's exports, but this vital crop could vanish in a few years, Icelanders claim, unless drastic conservation measures are taken. Even British officials concede that cod stocks are dwindling, but argue that the situation is not so perilous as Iceland says...
...result has been a constant shifting in the rights that the writ has been used to protect, particularly when federal courts review state convictions. Beginning in 1953 the Supreme Court handed down a series of decisions that have allowed lower federal courts to check over every constitutional claim, even if it had been fully litigated in state proceedings. "The writ wasn't supposed to be an appeal, but it has basically become another level of appellate review," says Columbia's Uviller. Prisoners like Lloyd Powell and David Rice began raining petitions on federal courts. The total last year...
...mind to turn more final authority back to the state courts. Three years ago, Justice Powell wrote a dissent-which three colleagues largely supported-arguing that federal habeas inquiries in state convictions should be limited to the question of whether the prisoner had a fair chance to raise his claim in state court. He further argued that there is now virtually no finality to any criminal adjudication, and the right of a prisoner to attack his conviction should extend only to matters bearing on his innocence...