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...open role of the Palestinians quickly caught the attention of neighboring Syria and Israel. Damascus is now known to be aiding the leftist Moslem forces there through its Saiqa fedayeen. Should Syrian assistance-or, less likely, outright intervention-threaten to tip the balance toward a Lebanon dominated by radical Arabs, the Israelis might respond with force because, said Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, such a situation would be "a real threat to Israel's security...
...notion that the shortest route to enhanced power is through a neighboring country's land. In his determination to annex the phosphate-rich Spanish colony, King Hassan has ignored an advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice that denied Morocco's claim of outright sovereignty over the Sahara. Spain, after promising to hold a referendum on independence among the colony's 70,000 people -mostly nomadic tribesmen-now seems willing to renege on its pledge rather than risk confrontation with the adventuristic Hassan. After a flurry of diplomatic moves, Madrid reportedly agreed last week to recognize...
...always outright vicious. Sometimes he plays word games that totally baffle the eager young correspondents who want to know what the message of hissongsis or who the songs are about. He seems genuinely puzzled as to why anyone would be interested in his personal life, and he guards it jealously. "It was never my intention to become a big star," he says. "It happened, and there was nothing I could do about it. I tried to get rid of that burden for a long time. I eat and sleep, and you know, have the same problems anybody else does...
...that institution--the Federal Government--that New Yorkers quite correctly look for aid. President Ford, despite his foolhardy rhetoric, mistaken economics and quite un-Republican belief that welfare checks are more important than bond coupons, is not entirely misguided. Clearly, to give New York outright the help it requires would simply encourage other cities to take the same route of overspending. The waste in New York's budget is indefensible, and no-strings-attached aid will not help the city excise the triple cancer of patronage jobs, greedy municipal unions and a welfare system that is well-nigh...
...unnamed masked prostitute. TV Guide's condensed version: "From party girl to call girl. Scheduled guest: TV personality Pat Montandon and author of How To Be a Party Girl." Montandon sued, alleging that she had suffered "horrendously obscene phone calls, obscene letters and obscene objects in the mail." Outright strangers, she lamented, had asked whether she really had been a prostitute, and one man even asked how much she charged. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the case and therefore let stand a California court's award to her of $151,000 in damages from...