Word: extended
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Kissinger's major problem is to define and possibly extend the perimeters of agreement. At this point, Sadat cannot agree to a formal declaration of nonbelligerency, which Israel demands in return for withdrawing from the Mitla and Giddi passes and surrendering the Abu Rudeis oilfields in the Sinai desert. But the Israeli government is prepared to make less extensive territorial withdrawals in exchange for symbolic tokens of Egypt's peaceful intentions, like its allowing Israeli cargoes to pass through the reopened Suez Canal. One sticking point is Israel's insistence that any further disengagement deal be spelled...
Last fall Grenoble started to extend its bus and trolley systems. Now it is testing a new kind of "people mover" -an aerial tramway akin to a ski lift that may be extended from the city center to the suburbs. The city is also giving downtown shoppers a break; cars have been banned on three streets which have become pedestrian malls. By 1980, Mayor Hubert Dubedout predicts, downtown will be served exclusively by public transport-a pedestrian's paradise, with no automobiles to be seen...
...Jesuits from 80 countries convened three months ago in Rome, Pope Paul made known that he wanted no changes made regarding the "fourth vow" of special loyalty to the Pope, which some Jesuits take in addition to the three usual vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. His reasoning: to extend the elitist vow to all Jesuit priests (fewer than 50% are now allowed to take it) would weaken it as a commitment. Undaunted, the Congregation, by more than a two-thirds majority, agreed in a preliminary vote to extend the vow to all Jesuit priests (TIME, Feb 10). The Pope...
...Middlesex County Superior Court judge yesterday refused to extend a preliminary injunction against Harvard for sex discrimination in the firing of Robin Sing, a Gund Hall librarian...
President Bok said yesterday that the University will be "very firm" in enforcing the two-year limit, which would force Dunlop to resign his chair if he chooses to extend his leave into a second Ford administration...