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As recently as Jan. 25, the King said, he had secured a new concession from the Reagan Administration. The U.S. had agreed to allow the P.L.O. to take part in an international peace conference if the organization agreed to three conditions: endorse United Nations Resolutions 242 and 338, implicitly recognizing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East End of a Peace Initiative | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

ANOTHER SEQUEL TO the La Cage Aux Folles trilogy has just hit the silver screen, and the two principal characters, Renato/Zaza (Ugo Tognazzi), the transvestite star of the Cage aux Folles cabaret, and Albin (Michel Serrault), the manager of the St. Tropez nightclub, are still being played by the original...

Author: By Mac LA Follette, | Title: La Cage Aux Folles Meets The Bride | 2/28/1986 | See Source »

Their efforts that year were paid off with the greatest university concession to the movement in its history. The Corporation, which decides the policy on Harvard's investment portfolio, agreed to sell its stock in banks that gave direct loans to South Africa. When the university tried to pull back...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Blossoming With the Spring Flowers | 2/27/1986 | See Source »

Yet despite the opposition from above, P-9 is refusing concession offers. Whether it can actually succeed in reaching its demands is questionable. Pickets have spread beyond the Minnesota base to Hormel plants in Ottumwa, lowa and Dallas, Texas. But the top national union leaders refusal to support local strategies...

Author: By Charles C. Matthews, | Title: Local's Labor Not Lost | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

In the past, informal Urumqi time was two hours behind Peking's and a source of much confusion. Government offices, for instance, were required to open at 8 a.m. Peking time, or 6 a.m. in Urumqi. Summer travelers to Xinjiang found themselves sitting down to dinner when it was officially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: If It's Light, It Must Be Urumqi | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

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