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Tens of thousands of peace-plan opponents have flocked to a biblical site in the Golan, where 500 Israelis today joined a hunger strike in its 18th day that has become the focal point of Israeli protests against the prospective Syria land giveback...
Israel Mulls a Giveback...
...capital-gains cut will undermine tax reform and ultimately boost the deficit, but Washington cannot say no to any kind of giveback. -- There is less than meets the eye to the rash of arms-control proposals. -- In Greenfield, Iowa, a newspaper marks its centennial and a rural community worries about its future...
Despite this giveback and the return of another 325 Orthodox sites over the past three years, church activities remain sharply restricted in the Soviet Union. Only 7,000 churches are functioning in the country today, compared with 70,000 in pre-Revolution days. Formal religious instruction is banned. And the 17 church-control laws instituted by Stalin in 1929 even forbid charitable work, although bit by bit some Christians are being allowed to help at clinics, mental hospitals and homes for the aged. There is no word as yet on the fate of the long-promised revision of Stalin...
...U.M.W. President Trumka this year was determined to break precedent. The coal miner turned lawyer wanted to win better salaries and better job security-without recourse to a strike. When the talks in Washington ended, he claimed to have secured a "totally non-concessionary" agreement. "It makes no giveback, no takeaways," said the U.M.W president. "It makes gains in wages. It makes gains in job security. It makes gains in the area of safety. It makes gains in the area of pensions...