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...these arguments. Last month he was in Aswan at Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's invitation to discuss the proposed linkage with the Palestinians, and before that in Damascus for similar talks with President Hafez Assad. Says one political observer in Amman: "The moderates want Hussein to 'leash' the West Bank to keep it from becoming too radical or too dangerous. They don't want to go through the agonizing process of negotiating Israeli withdrawal only to have a militant Palestinian regime make trouble and wreck the peace...
...neighborhood. Al and this man have never exchanged friendly words in my presence. As the man waited somewhat impatiently at the dock that divides up the council chambers, Al went into a rambling spiel that lasted more than 25 minutes, delving into topics as disparate as the leash law and the rising incidence of public dopesmoking. It was a sort of ad hominem filibuster, although in my assessment at the time it was a waste of time for everyone and a waste of effort on the part of a crackpot councilor. Al talked about Italian cooking, he talked about...
...slightly spaced-out contestant claimed he had an invisible dog, then paraded across the stage with only a leash in his hand. Apart from that, more than 450 pooch owners turned up in Atlanta last week to audition their dogs for a role in Burt Reynolds' next movie, Smokey and the Bandit. The judge was Burt himself, who will play the bandit opposite Sally Field as a hitchhiker and Jackie Gleason as a Texas sheriff who's trying to track him down. Burt's choice as the canine co-star was a two-year-old basset hound...
...While Washington waits for a Lebanese solution to arrive, like some Arabic Godot, it cannot use its unique position to broker peace. Jerusalem is in no mood to negotiate now, with the Syrians trying to snap a leash in Lebanon on Israel's old enemies, the Palestinians. Initially, Jerusalem worried that Syria would use its involvement in Lebanon as a pretext to take over the country or to launch a surprise attack against Israel. But last spring, after Syria gave private assurances to the U.S. that its intervention in Lebanon was not aimed at Israel, Jerusalem relaxed and began...
What this adds up to is that refs must keep the action on a tight leash without intruding on the game's natural tempo with staccato bursts of foul calling. "I've yet to come against a coach who wants a lot of shoving, banging, or grabbing," says Hannon. "You just set your mind that you're going to keep on blowing your game, because you don't want a fight. Next day the fight's in all the papers and the first thing everyone does is look who worked the game...