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DIED. Sheik Mohammed Ali Ja'abari, 80, mayor of the West Bank town of Hebron (pop. 60,000) for 36 years and a power in Palestinian Arab politics under successive British, Jordanian and Israeli administrations; after a long illness; in Hebron. Ja'abari was one of the few important West Bankers willing to deal with the Israelis after the 1967 occupation, but his inability to prevent the Israelis from establishing settlements near Hebron weakened his rule and he resigned...
...rather looked as though the Raj had returned to In'ja. Once more the Union Jack fluttered over Delhi's posh Roshanara Club, while pukka sahib types bowled on the cricket pitch. The bar of the Calcutta Light Horse, a regiment founded a century ago, was pink gin-deep in British officers. Some of them, though, looked film-familiar: Gregory Peck, David Niven, Roger Moore and Trevor Howard. The pseudo sahibs were shooting The Sea Wolves, about a daring 1943 attack on a German communications ship anchored off Goa. How did it feel to re-create the days...
...Moroccan city of "Tangiers." It is Algiers, with an "s" that is the captial of Algeria. The singular TANGIER (no "s") is where Burroughs lived and wrote for many years. In French, the city is "Tanger" (tawn-JAY); the city was named by ancient Phoenicians, as something like "Tahn-ja," which is how many contemporary Arabic-or better Berber-speaking Moroccans refer...
Those officials were stricken with a strange sense of de ja vu this week, when Washington Gov. Dixie Lee Ray shut down the Hanford site, claiming that federal agencies were not properly monitoring shipments of the hazardous materials...
...sprawling headquarters in Wolfsburg, Chairman Toni Schmücker and his top aides are pondering a major question: Should the West German automaker build a second plant in the U.S.? A final decision is expected by year's end, and the early signs point toward a definite ja. A team of Volkswagen experts is already studying possible sites; the new plant would be an assembly operation that would put together the popular, front-wheel drive Rabbits and would probably be on the West Coast...