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...some of its holdings. Perhaps most troubling of all, the U.M.W. is in a state of near anarchy, having overwhelmingly rejected its leadership's call to ratify the proposed contract. Says one veteran union staffer: "We've never had a precedent of this kind. There is very grave danger...
...skull was stolen from Swedenborg's London grave, 44 years after his 1772 burial, by a retired sea captain infatuated with phrenology. It was bought a century later at an antique shop in Swansea, Wales, by the family whose heirs sold it off last week. Swedenborgians protested the sale of stolen property, but are relieved that the skull is returning to Sweden, where the rest of the founder's body now lies...
This represents a serious hardening of Israel's position. If the feisty Premier sticks to his guns, it will be a grave setback to the peace process. President Carter said as much when he observed at his press conference that the "abandonment" of 242 "would put us back many months, or years," since that ingeniously ambiguous resolution has been the framework for all Middle East peace negotiations during the past decade. Begin's new stand would make it almost impossible for the completion of a declaration of principles that Israel and Egypt could sign; it would almost rule...
About all the grave robbers could be charged with, unless they demanded ransom, was "interfering with the peace of the deceased" (maximum penalty: three years...
...intention of the PLO leaders is clear. It is not the grave problem of the miserable refugees that they want to solve. It is the destruction of the state of Israel that they seek with inflamed desire. It is not themselves that they want to "determine;" it is Israel that they want to exterminate, just as their brothers did to the Curds in Iraq two years ago and as they have tried to do to the Christians in Lebanon...