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...have been often disputed by the Arabs, particularly the nearly 700,000 Palestinians on the Jordan River's West Bank. During the Israeli plunge into Lebanon, complaints from West Bank Arabs about rough treatment at Israeli hands reached a crescendo, as units of the 2,200-member Israeli garrison there carried out arrests and other measures apparently intended to discourage any unrest. There were a few demonstrations, to be sure, but the Israeli crackdown was indiscriminate. Said a Western diplomat in Jerusalem: "There is a widespread feeling that we haven't seen this kind of repression here...
...James A. Garrison, a Ph.D. candidate at the Div School, said yesterday he is not sure the measure will work. "In the final analysis, locks are for honest people. You can't legislate morality," Garrison said...
Clamshell staged the sit-in to demand that Boston Edison cancel plans for construction of a nuclear power plant at Plymouth, Mass., and rescind the $23 million rate increase announced Tuesday, Garrison said Wednesday...
...Garrison said Suffolk County District Judge Theodore Glyn's ruling of "continuance without finding" shows that in Massachusetts, unlike New Hampshire, the courts are responsive to the threat of nuclear power." He added that the judge told the demonstrators he was personally sympathetic to their cause...
Clamshell "intends to keep putting pressure on Boston Edison until we get some kind of meaningful dialogue going. People have to be made aware that nuclear power equals cancer," Garrison said...