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...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...
Federal regulations also sometimes clash with the practices of the states. Georgia's Governor George Busbee, for example, plans to go to Washington this week to protest restrictions against requiring beneficiaries of Medicaid to pay a portion of their medical bills. Georgia had been assessing such payments, and, at the present rate of spending, the federal ban will leave the state $20.8 million short in its Medicaid budget; the entire program may have to be shut down early next year. In Massachusetts, where the state assumes all local welfare costs, Democratic Governor Michael Dukakis last week reluctantly signed...
Modeled partly after Stendhal's The Charterhouse of Parma, the novel was set in 18th century Italy. But Mrs. Wharton soon turned to her true subject, the world of the American rich and the clash between new and old money. On her native ground she has never been matched, and no other American has ever portrayed so well the sometimes savage drama of life behind the damask draperies of Fifth Avenue and the wrought-iron gates of Newport. By the time of The House of Mirth in 1905, she was recognized as a major novelist and, as an aging...
...against a taped version of the same piece. It is a John-Henry-Versus-steam-hammer kind of conflict, only here the sense of epic struggle is all but alone. The taped sounds weave in and out of the performance, giving it an almost antiphonal quality. The only real clash comes when the taped sounds are electronically altered, creating a sense of war between the media...
Edward C. Banfield, former Shattuck Professor of Government and an expert on urban affairs, has decided to return to Harvard after three years at the University of Pennsylvania, partially because of a clash with radical students there...