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...modest success, a resumption of the Palestinian autonomy negotiations after a hiatus of 16 months. Representatives of Egypt, Israel and the U.S. assembled in Cairo last week amid the usual displays of friendship and expressions of optimism. At the close of a two-day meeting at the Mena House Hotel, near the Giza pyramids, they announced a schedule for continuing discussions concerning that most difficult of unresolved questions, the nature of the "full autonomy" promised the Palestinian Arabs of the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip under the Camp David accords. The plan is for diplomats of the three...
When draft registration for 18-year-old men resumed in the summer of 1980, after a five-year hiatus, more than 3.5 million youths, or 93% of those eligible, went to post offices and filled out Selective Service forms certifying their availability for military service. Since then, compliance with the law has gone downhill. In the first three months of this year, only 69% of those required to sign up did, even though the absence of a draft law means that they cannot be inducted into the armed services. That was considerably below the rate of compliance...
Another three-month hiatus in 1980 produced a refreshed and refocused champion: "I just realized that I could change my priorities and not worry about winning, not worry about how Tracy Austin or Martina was playing. I could simply try to master my own game and try to reach my peak. Not once did I say to myself, I've got to come back.' At 21 I needed it. But I'm not obsessed with it now as I was then, when it was the only constant in my life...
...helps that the nation is asking these questions at a time of year when it is otherwise busy squinting up at tennis lobs, lolling in cocoa butter and perfecting curvature of the spine cocooned in hammocks. August is more a hiatus than a month, and the level of public anxiety ordinarily settles on such problems as whether the inner side of one's forearm is as tan as the outer. Still, some of the is sues suggested by Reagan's holiday are real, especially as they involve policy matters. This has hardly been a languid summer season...
...basic vacation entitlements. France virtually shuts down in August as businesses close and urban dwellers flee to the Pyrenees and the seashore. French law provides two days of vacation for every month worked, or typically almost five weeks of holiday per year for nearly all employees. A month-long hiatus is also a tradition in Italy, West Germany, Scandinavia and Spain. In fact, Europeans have trouble comprehending the prevalence of shorter vacation spans...