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...rumors that Mario Moretti, 36, the top suspect in the Moro assassination, was also in police custody. To speed proceedings, all nine will stand summary trial within two weeks on charges of possessing arms and explosives-a protective measure to ensure that the defendants are not released while authorities ponder more serious charges against them...
...Rome, Cardinals bury a Pope and ponder his successor...
...that the preamble to U.N. Resolution 242, banning territorial "acquisitions by conquest," should not be part of any Camp David agreement. Arguments over this, says one participant, are "mind-blowing" and incredibly legalistic. Three hours devoted to "the inadmissibility of acquisitions" phrase. Worried Americans take lunch on a patio, ponder some way to bridge the West Bank gulf. They devise ingenious two-track solution: let Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Palestinians negotiate at one level over final status of West Bank; let Israel and Jordan also seek a peace treaty at same time, with Palestinian participation. Israel's Barak is shown...
...course, stop-watch in tow, waiting for his charges to hustle by. Instead, a van drove up through the early morning fog; and out jumped the squad, stripped naked for a sunrise Chinese fire drill. They then got back into the van and drove off, leaving McCurdy to ponder yet another season in the totally unpredictable Ivy League...Coach Billy Cleary reportedly steaming over his new accomodations at remodeled Dillon Field House. Mr. Hockey's quarters don't have any windows. Maybe he's claustrophobic in addition to his Crimsonphobia...The Journal suggested that shuttle buses be used for Harvard...
...nine Justices began their summer recess, lawyers and officials were left to ponder the meaning of the delicately balanced Bakke decision, which decreed that race may be an element in university admissions but not on a basis of numerical quotas-unless a previous history of discrimination is involved. Most university officials regarded that as an endorsement of the affirmative-action programs they already use, but in other fields, there was considerable confusion...