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...return to their place of origin, to self-determination, and to establish an independent state. The paper rejects Israel's creation of new settlements on the West Bank and calls on all countries to halt emigration of their citizens to "occupied Palestinian and Arab territories." Significantly, the document distinguishes between territory occupied after the 1967 war and Israel's 1948 boundaries-a tacit admission that Israel has a right to exist as a state...
This week the pressures will mount further when Congress returns from its recess and two committees convene almost immediately for hearings related to the Lance affair. Also due this week are the final segments of the Comptroller of the Currency's report-the document that did much to bring the heat on Lance to a boil. To reduce the heat, White House Press Secretary Jody Powell declared that Lance had done nothing to deserve being "run out of Government...
...committee staff, moreover, has reconstituted itself into a true investigative unit, with Ribicoffs approval. Proffessional investigators have been borrowed from the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, and eight to ten staff members have been boning up on every relevant document in the Lance affair. For the first witness, the committee will call Comptroller Heimann. Lance himself is tentatively scheduled to testify the next...
Some scientists feared that the document placed too much faith in technological-rather than "human"-solutions, but the plea nonetheless represents a milestone. For the first time, the international community is committing itself to the fight against the growth of deserts. While the document leaves action up to individual countries, the incentive to collaborate-perhaps even with old enemies-is great. To many countries, doing battle against the deserts is the only alternative to poverty, starvation and chaos...
...terms of his will filed in a Tennessee court last week, Elvis' father, Vernon Presley, 62, is instructed to divide the estate among family members as he sees fit. The only kin mentioned were Elvis' daughter, Lisa Marie, 9, and his grandmother, Minnie Mae Presley, 85. The document, signed last March, makes no bequest to the singer's ex-wife Priscilla, 32, or his fiancee, Ginger Alden, 20, who found his body in the bathroom. Nor does Presley's will mention his longtime manager Colonel Tom Parker. Meanwhile, the Memphis police labored for a second week...