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...maintaining a barbed-wire border that Palestinians are not allowed to cross. Though some Gazans look to Jordan for guidance, King Hussein feels little responsibility for the territory. While West Bank Palestinians hold Jordanian passports, the nationality of Gazans is officially "undefined" on the travel documents they must obtain from Israel. Gaza has become such an afterthought that it is rarely mentioned in discussions about a Palestinian homeland. Fatah, the main P.L.O. group, has contributed little money or moral support to the territory...
...Board of Trustees] strongly endorses administration efforts to obtain more substantial parity in the number of men and women students applying to and matriculating at the College," according to a proposal announced by Dartmouth's ruling body...
Ortega also said Miranda could have taken with him information on the Sandinistas' negotiations to obtain MIG fighter jets from the Soviet Union...
...Sandinistas' glad hand did not extend, however, to Radio Catolica, the religious station that was permitted to reopen last month after a 20-month hiatus. The government last week prohibited Radio Catolica from broadcasting news, saying it must first obtain requisite permits. The Sandinistas also suspended a six-week-old visitors' program with Costa Rica after more than 1,200 Nicaraguans failed to return home from cross-border visits with relatives. Some skeptics wondered if such measures might signal the beginning of an attempt to slow the pace of reforms called for in the Guatemala plan...
WELL, THE long and short of it is that ultimately I was unable to help the Royal Couple with their marital problems, and by extension, failed to obtain ancestral rights to any portion of the Queen's lands. But my trip was not a complete failure. I was able to buy a watch with a picture of Big Ben on it and one of those furry hats English guards wear. And, more than that, I think I learned a valuable lesson...