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...into the Middle East peace negotiations as a full partner, believing that Washington should prepare its own peace plan and then press both sides to accept it. This is what happened at Camp David. Since last year, Sadat has been seeking what diplomats and journalists alike have called a "fig leaf to make compromise respectable. A generally agreed-on declaration of principles, Sadat reasoned, would provide a framework within which other Arab states could negotiate their own deals with Israel. Sadat's deal has now become the first step toward a comprehensive settlement in the Middle East. If the other...
...beaked Tipper flapped out of the White House in a huff the other day and may not come back until fall. To heck with him. There was a robin that built a nest in a fig tree on the North Portico, raised a brood of four, flew off to the East Porch and did it all over again in a juniper. She loves the place and will return next year, or so believes Fred Evenden, Executive Director of the Wildlife Society, who has been watching the Robin all this summer...
...demonstration was sentenced to write a 1,500-word essay on civil disobedience, while a thief who stole some saddles from a farmer was made to raise a pig and a calf for his victim. One judge is even said to have sentenced a naked Frisbee player to plant fig trees in a park...
...from his previous position, but still wants to restrict Palestinian participation to those living in the West Bank and Gaza. Sadat insists on including those in the diaspora; otherwise, he argues, the problem cannot be solved "in all its aspects." The Aswan summit language, say the Egyptians, is the "fig leaf that Sadat must have if he hopes to make bilateral negotiations respectable in the eyes of his doubting fellow Arabs...
...Postal, schmostal. I don't care a fig about that. I've got something really big on my hands. This morning, my husband told me he is having an affair with the cleaning lady...