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...break up a wrestling match between Algerian and Moroccan delegates over a map of Africa that classified the Western Sahara as a nonindependent country. The Algerians, who support Polisario guerrillas fighting for the area's independence, were penciling in "independent" when the Moroccans chanced along and tried to ink in boundary lines indicating that Western Sahara had been partitioned between Morocco and Mauritania. A brief, fierce struggle ensued...
...House Judiciary Committee were specific and damning. It takes a kind of ethical myopia not to understand that the accumulated offenses of Watergate were different. But in many Americans' minds, the scandal recedes with the years into a small, dark tangle of legalities, a smudge of vengeful newspaper ink...
...play is rather like one of those examination tests against the clock in which the student is urged not to linger unduly over the puzzlers but to try to complete as many questions as possible. Whiting gets through a lot of questions, but the answers are in invisible ink...
...Budget. More than $50 billion in deficit spending is projected for the fiscal 1979 budget that is now before Congress, and both Carter and his Budget Director, James Mclntyre, are under attack for being unable to reduce the volume of the red ink any more than that. Last week Carter pledged to do better in his 1980 budget, saying that new spending will be severely restricted. Meanwhile, the President's chief inflation fighter, Robert Strauss, predicted that the deficit in the 1980 budget will be "well below" $40 billion...
...Chasseur de Pieuvres" brings to mind an octopus--but with only four legs. It swirls around blackly shooting out clouds of green and yellow ink amidst sea-shapes like diatoms magnified thousands of times. "Serie Barcelone" is likewise a collection of natural forms of unnatural dimensions and hues. Looking at it is like looking through a microscope at a variety of different cell structures stained orange, green, blue and every other color...