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...probe, in the course of which four blacks were killed by investigators under circumstances that are still not entirely clear. Then Police Superintendent James Parsons resigned. Grand juries were convened to investigate the killings and consider allegations of police beatings of three blacks and one white in order to obtain leads and evidence in the Neupert case...
...Palestinians what they most want: control over their land. But Arafat has also come under pressure from hard-line P.L.O. factions who oppose negotiations under U.S. auspices. At a meeting in Algiers last February of the Palestine National Council, the de facto P.L.O. parliament, Arafat had hoped to obtain backing for joint P.L.O.-Jordanian initiatives. But although Arafat won a minor victory in blocking outright rejection of the Reagan plan, the P.L.O. would not surrender its representation of the Palestinians. Says a U.S. diplomat in Washington: "It confirmed Arafat's leadership but left him, and us, uncertain about...
...meeting with President Reagan last December, Hussein was assured that if he expressed his willingness to join the peace process, the U.S. would obtain a freeze on settlements in the occupied territories and a complete Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon before the King sat down to talk: Washington had advised Hussein of the contents of the Reagan plan before it was announced. After it became public, the King began a series of consultations with Arafat, and the two men went so far as to consider a joint negotiating team in which non-P.L.O. Palestinians would participate alongside Jordan...
...outline ways to get around them. One approach, they decided, would be to play up to friends abroad. "Even if you haven't heard from them for years," suggested Liberation, "persuade them to put you up and change your money." Another notion: put on a suit and tie, obtain fake credentials and pass off your holiday as a business trip. Finally, in a gibe at the French bureaucracy that still has to come to terms with what is clearly an administrative nightmare, one commentator proposed that travelers simply smuggle their money out. "Just walk with your head high...
...committees will look into the issue of credit and grades for courses taught by Paul A. Crafton, a professor who used false identities to obtain teaching positions at the colleges...