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...agreement with the Shah. Perhaps for that reason, President Saddam Hussein not only responded favorably to a U.N. Security Council vote calling for an end to hostilities, but also issued his own "unilateral" offer of a four-day ceasefire. Iranian President Abolhassan Banisadr replied to the U.N. plea with a scornful insistence that his country would not consider a cease-fire "so long as Iraq is in violation of our territorial sovereignty." A peace-seeking effort by Pakistan President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, who had been dispatched to the two capitals by the 42-nation Islamic Conference, also came...
...technicality in a state law, pistols were not firearms, and thus carrying a concealed pistol was not an offense. Such actions have won him a nickname: "Let-'Em-Go Joe." In the Snell case, Durant maintains that "the state was having trouble finding witnesses," and that without plea bargaining Snell might have gone scot free. Not so, insists Dade County Assistant State Attorney Leonard Glick: "I told the judge I had my witnesses." During Snell's sentencing, Glick protested so vehemently that Durant threatened to cite him for contempt of court...
...Iran finally has a government capable, at least in theory, of making decisions, although that was not readily apparent from the chaos in the long-awaited Majlis (parliament) debate last week. Finally, there are signs that the U.S. has begun more actively seeking a settlement, beginning with a conciliatory plea sent by Muskie last month to Prime Minister Mohammed Ali Raja...
...creative, for the dutiful daughter of the father in us is only a hack." Harrison diagnoses in Rich a "fossilized moral imagination," parochialism, whining, polemicism, and a penchant for boring the reader. She says "the tender conscience and the tough mind alike are confounded by this diatribe." Making a plea for intellectual generosity and open-mindedness, Rich's rhetoric leaves no room for a more complex truth. It's refreshing to hear one feminist speak of another with more candor than piety...
...since the SALT II debate has the Administration lobbied so vigorously in Congress. Emissaries from Jimmy Carter regularly called on undecided Senators and Representatives. Secretary of State Edmund Muskie made an impassioned plea to his old friends on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. According to a Senate aide, he said in effect: "I know it's a tough one, but you guys should go along with me on it." Despite these efforts, both the Senate committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee last week embarrassed Carter by voting to veto his June decision to sell India 38 tons...