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Inside Happenings. In the hope of nudging other Republicans to the same conclusion, Romney detoured the poverty pilgrimage long enough for a chat with New York's Mayor John Lindsay and a 21-hour political strategy dinner with Governor Rockefeller, the Michigander's strongest backer. Though he could write a Baedeker on New York's slums and the avoidance of riots, Lindsay decided not to join Romney on a trip through Bedford-Stuyvesant and Harlem. "I think it is better if he goes alone rather than be inhibited by the presence of other officials," the mayor said...
Most active of the new pragmatists is Sheik Mohammed Ali Ja'abari, 60, the mayor of the ancient city of Hebron in the hills southwest of Jeru salem. A former Minister of Justice under Jordan's King Hussein, Ja'abari has spent the past two weeks trying to organize a conference of prominent Palestinians to determine just what form peace negotiations should take, and what they should lead to. His compatriots still disagree about whether to hold out for full independence, try to become part of Jordan again or accept Israeli citizenship in return for full local...
...More important, there have been no mass repressions, no raping of Arab women, no wholesale expropriations of Arab property. Palestinian businessmen have shucked their coats and ties, adopted the more comfortable Israeli practice of coming to work in their shirtsleeves. "From the very first day," says Bethlehem's Mayor Elias Bandak, "the Israelis and our people mixed together as old friends...
...former junior-high math teacher, argued that there is nothing to prevent a teacher from quitting his job, although under a state law the union can be fined up to $10,000 a day for striking. Union leaders rejected a two-year, $125 million package of benefits proposed by Mayor John Lindsay's mediation panel, which would have raised starting salaries from $5,400 to $6,200 this year and top salaries (reached in 14 years) from $9,950 to $10,350. The union also demands for teachers the right to remove unruly kids from class and continuation...
...Euzennat and Salviat had won the support of Malraux. Unmoved, Marseille's mayor, Gaston Defferre, claimed that the city would lose 2,000 jobs and millions of dollars if construction stopped. He offered to rebuild the walls elsewhere, but the scientists balked. "If you transfer these walls, you destroy them...