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...WEST BANK OF THE JORDAN. This disputed area is also strategically important, since it intrudes into the very center of Israel. One compromise solution might be the creation of a semiautonomous, demilitarized Palestinian state on the West Bank, as King Hussein suggested in 1972. As an added assurance of Arab good intentions, the territory, which would be federated to Jordan, could also have U.N. observers, as well as open borders for Israeli inspection. A plan proposed in 1968 by Israel's Deputy Premier Yigal Allon parallels Hussein's proposal in important respects...
Independents appear to be split on this issue. Some, like Donald A. Fantini, contend that the city manager effectively serves as the civilian head of the police department and that the creation of the new post would only add another layer of bureaucracy...
...articulated his sentiments against that system. He advocates citizen review of teacher candidates, with review of tenure, student participation in curriculum development, further development of alternative schools, and new work-study programs. In 1971 Callahan founded Students United through Politics for Educational Reform (SUPER). SUPER is credited with the creation of the Student Concerns subcommittee of the School Committee. Now a student at UMass, he is a member of the advisory board of the Cambridge Civic Association. He seems headed for a career as a genuinely radical reformer in Cambridge. He ran for State Representative last year...
...governing the complicated wheeling and dealing in his business may temper the thrust of some recent Congressional developments. The House Agricultural Committee is beginning to investigate whether excessive speculation in commodities markets has inflated food prices; and Senators Hubert Humphrey and George McGovern have introduced bills calling for the creation of an independent Commodities Exchange Commission to oversee the trading of futures contracts in much the same way that the Securities & Exchange Commission keeps its eye on the sale of stocks and bonds...
...each Elkin hero obeys his needs with results that vary from the bitterly funny to the preposterous and pathetic. Alexander Main of The Bail-bondsman is a kind of clawlike extension of the law's arm-a bondsman who pursues his work with outrageous devotion. A typical Elkin creation, Main promotes himself to legendary status, invoking history, philosophy and myth until he seems like a burlesque Mephistopheles to petty criminals...