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...free after two to six months in the outside world. Another 13, having held regular full-time jobs for six months, will graduate soon. No family member has been arrested while living on Pacific Heights, and crime in the area has not increased, though hostile neighbors are trying to evict the group on the grounds that they are not really a family and thus are violating zoning regulations...
...cover the cost of garrisoning 2,800 troops on the island had been refused by Maltese Prime Minister Dom Mintoff. The fiery Mintoff, in rebuffing the routine payment from the Bank of England, 1) demanded higher rent from Britain; 2) intimated that he would evict the troops unless he received it; 3) flew to Tripoli seeking support from Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi; and 4) tried to con other NATO nations that share in the rent payments into putting more pressure on London. What made the whole thing so familiar was that Mintoff had followed essentially the same script a year...
From the start of the occupation, the Administration followed a sit-tight policy, preferring to pursue increasingly severe legal sanctions against the demonstrators rather than use police power to evict them. And despite the worries of some frantic letter-writing alumni who scorned the trespass on sacred University property (Mass Hall is Harvard's oldest brick structure, built in 1720), the strategy paid off. Only a week after the occupation began, the blacks decided to vacate the building rather than face heavy fines and jail sentences...
THERE was a striking lack of official comment from Washington and Moscow last week on Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's sudden decision to evict his army of Soviet advisers. In fact, it was almost as if this strange turn in Middle Eastern affairs had not taken place at all. There was, of course, a good reason why the two big powers were maintaining a low profile: neither seemed to have a clear idea of what could, or should, happen next. The two superpowers seemed equally nonplussed by the diplomatic setback that a client state had handed one of them...
university spokesmen said yesterday that the demonstrators were quiet and peaceful and that no attempts were being made of evict them...