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...President met separately with Israeli Ambassador Ephraim Evron, who delivered a "strong appeal" from Begin to rescind the order holding up delivery of the F-16s. Reagan answered that the Israelis should have considered a diplomatic route for resolving their worries about the Iraqi reactor; but, as one aide reported, "the President reaffirmed our strong and deeply rooted relationship with Israel," and obliquely assured Evron that...
...nudie show can go on in Mount Ephraim, N.J., a small (pop. 4,863) bedroom community near Camden and Philadelphia. At the Six-Thirteen Corp. "adult bookstore," customers used to be able to pop a token worth 25? into a coin-operated machine, causing a shade to roll up revealing a nude dancer doing her bumps and grinds in a glass booth. But Mount Ephraim had a zoning ordinance that in effect banned all live entertainment, while allowing such commercial activities as restaurants, retail stores and beauty salons. In 1976 the bookstore and its operators, James Schad and Toni Taylor...
...brethren in the seven-man majority, falls "within the First Amendment guarantee," as do political speech and ideological speech, and "nudity alone" cannot strip away this "mantle." Noted the court: "The zoning power is not infinite and unchallengeable." Nor was the court impressed with Mount Ephraim's justification for the ban-that it would avert parking problems and the need for additional police protection-since the town allowed a variety of other commercial enterprises. The ordinance was overly broad, said the court, in that it banned all forms of live entertainment but failed to show how such entertainment posed...
State Department Spokesman William Dyess said the agreement was justified because of "serious security conditions in the Middle East." Whether the sale can get congressional approval remains to be seen; many Congressmen have already expressed opposition. Israeli Ambassador to Washington Ephraim Evron promptly notified the U.S. of "his disappointment and concern over the decision," which he said would "exacerbate the arms race and increase the dangers for Israel." The Saudis were understandably elated because they had seen the proposed sale as a symbolic test of U.S. commitment to their defense. Saudi sensitivity on the question had been such that when...
Harvard gave its most recent reply to Ephraim Isaac this week, filing a motion in U.S. Federal District Court that asks for dismissal of the discrimination suit that the former associate professor of Afro-American Studies drew up after the University denied him tenure...