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...stumbling blocks remain, the Egyptians and Israelis reached an accommodation on the sensitive issue of the P.L.O.'s role. Peres accepted a formula in which Palestinians who are not "declared members" of the P.L.O. could take part in the talks. Peres, moreover, did not insist that the P.L.O. be forbidden to pick those Palestinians, thus giving P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat the opportunity to play a behind-the-scenes role. Peres, however, rejected the first stage of Mubarak's plan--talks between the U.S. and a Jordanian-Palestinian delegation--on the grounds that Israel should not be excluded from any part...
...make sure the elections go ahead without troublemaking by the opposition, Zia laid down some severe restrictions. Candidates were not permitted to hold outdoor meetings or rallies. A few who tried to get around this by using mosques for political meetings were disqualified. Processions were forbidden. Loudspeakers and microphones were banned, making it difficult or impossible for candidates to use large halls for campaign speeches. Instead, the military rulers decreed that candidates could go from house to house, speaking only to as many people as could fit comfortably into a single room...
...Forbidden access to Eliot's papers, and permission to quote extensively from his work, Hastings is like a surgeon forced to operate in a straitjacket. So drudgy Tom sets the play's pace and defeats the efforts of Herrmann to animate this stick--a challenge not usually above him, as he demonstrated two years ago in Plenty, playing another man of propriety married to a disturbed idealist. Covington, Tyzack and Haig (imported from the Royal Court Theater in London, where Tom and Viv was first produced last year) perform admirably in better roles, ones with a little shading, irony...
...land. But for whatever reasons, the distinguishing marks of Witness are its refusals. Book may help with a barn raising, and win respect for his carpentry, but that does not make him anyone's new best friend. Rachel may dance with him to a tune they hear on his forbidden car radio, or finally embrace him hungrily, but that does not mean that they will go off together. Young Samuel may be soberly fascinated by the detective's gun, but that does not mean he will set aside religious scruples to fire it when the rogue cops finally trace Book...
...returned four days before elections for the 276-member South Korean National Assembly--timing that seemed calculated to bolster the opposition New Korean Democratic Party, formed last December with the help of Kim's fellow dissident Kim Young Sam. Both Kims and twelve other opposition figures are forbidden to vote or run for office. To what degree Kim's presence might influence voters remains unclear. Most are too young to remember his nearly successful 1971 bid for the presidency; moreover, the electoral rules favor President Chun's Democratic Justice Party...