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MIDDLE EAST Crackdown on the Palestinians Israel takes a hard line on both terrorism and dissent
Begin's government is also adopting an increasingly hard line toward Arab residents of the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza. They are overwhelmingly opposed to both the peace treaty and to Begin's proposals for the kind of limited "autonomy" he thinks the Palestinians of those regions should have. In Begin's view the Israeli army should still be responsible for the security and public order of the West Bank and Gaza. Jews should be free to settle on the West Bank, and should be immune from rulings of the elected Palestinian administrative council. Israel would...
...seeking an estimated 40% increase in pay and benefits over the next three years. Last week, failing to reach agreement with Uniroyal, Inc., rubber workers struck the company's unionized plants. Uniroyal negotiators complain that they are "being hammered by the Government" to hold the 7% line...
Driven by bottom-line imperatives, U.S. companies have been notably inventive in cutting energy bills. One of the more intriguing ideas now comes from INSCO Systems of Neptune, N.J., a smallish (850 employees) subsidiary of Continental Corp., the big insurance group. During a natural gas shortage three winters ago, INSCO, which sells computer services to Continental and other insurers, decided that it could save fuel through what was literally an open-door policy. So one cold Friday evening, the doors throughout the firm's three story, 102,000-sq.-ft. building were left open so that the heat given...
Where did the primate line that led to man really originate? Lately most of the evidence has pointed to Africa, where scientists have found the bones of a knuckle-walking ape called Dryopithecus, a creature that lived some 20 million years ago and is generally believed to have given rise to both apes and man. This ape's own ancestors seem likely to have lived in Africa as well. As Exhibit A, Duke University Anthropologist Elwyn Simons offered fossils, found near Cairo, of a tree-dwelling primate 30 million years old; Simons christened the creature Aegyptopithecus. Last week, however...