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...judicial appeals. Says Dr. Yunis Abu Rabiya, a respected Bedouin physician in Beersheba: "How can a country that calls itself democratic pass a law that denies the elementary citizen's right of appeal to the courts?" The Bedouins also charge that the proposed law is based on outright "racism" because it is aimed exclusively at Arabs. The Bedouins have a case: last week Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon began long and detailed negotiations to compensate 5,000 Jewish settlers who will be forced to give up their homes in the Sinai as a result of the peace treaty...
More than building the first atomic bomb, more even than putting the first men on the moon, the creation from scratch of an entirely new industry to produce synthetic fuels would be the most ambitious technical venture that the U.S. has ever undertaken. From outright subsidies to price guarantees, the Government would offer many incentives for private firms to produce oil-like liquids and natural gas from the nation's plentiful coal, shale rock and biomass.* Congressmen are infatuated with the idea of synthetic-fuel production. Cracks Representative Clarence Brown of Ohio: "Every committee in Congress has a synfuel...
Certainly a contender, if not the outright champ, for terminal indecision is Frank Capra's Meet John Doe (1941), starring Gary Cooper. Five endings were shot; at one point, three were previewing simultaneously in different towns. Another classic case was Casablanca. Until the very end, the script remained refreshingly free of any ending whatever. No one knew whether lisa Lund (Ingrid Bergman) would stay in Casablanca with Rick (Humphrey Bogart) or leave with her husband (Paul Henreid). The production took on a kind of war-zone chaos, with scenes filmed as fast as writers typed them. When...
Though the decision stressed the importance of employers voluntarily setting up affirmative-action programs, it is likely that the government will use Weber to push for outright quota systems for minorities. Says Stanley Kaleczyc, associate general counsel for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: "This decision will give the EEOC more reason to press companies that have been laying back...
...amateur-photography field but had used this power unfairly. Berkey was awarded treble damages of $87 million. Now, in an equally stunning reversal, the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals has thrown out all but $990,000 of the 1978 award; it dismissed $45.8 million of the damages outright and said that only a new trial could determine if Kodak must pay the rest of the award...