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...Shamir would quell the intifadeh, which has taken the lives of more than 300 Palestinians and seven Israelis since December 1987, remains uncertain. He might push autonomy in an attempt to disarm the rebellion but forestall any grander political or territorial concessions. If nothing else worked, he might reverse his previous opposition and adopt a strategy proposed by Ariel Sharon, one of the hawks in his party. The Sharon scheme calls for Israel to incorporate unilaterally the Jewish settlement areas in the territories as well as land deemed necessary for security. Then it would withdraw its military forces from...
...even harsher crackdown against the intifadeh. Aside from favoring more arrests and deportations, reliable sources say, both men will propose to close the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza, a hotbed of unrest, and disperse its 60,000 residents throughout the Strip in newly built housing. They would also push for legislation denying Palestinians in the occupied territories the right to appeal to the Israeli High Court of Justice...
...masters' push to boost diversity derives from concerns raised last spring. In March, the Standing Committee on Athletics (SCA) sparked controversy when it suggested placingquotas on the number of varsity athletes who couldlive in each house...
Opponents argue that homosexuals and drug users who now get tested for HIV only because they are assured of confidentiality would be scared off by Proposition 102. Says David Kirp, professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley: "If you push hard enough, people won't come into the clinics." Moreover, some opponents suspect that the "reasonable cause to believe" provision would encourage the reporting of people simply because they appear...
Take the case of Scott. The longtime message from ITT had been to "do O.K. and stay out of trouble," recalls Tadd Seitz, now president of O.M. Scott & Sons of Marysville, Ohio. "There was no great push for excellence." But after Seitz and his fellow managers bought the unit in 1986 for $133 million, they promptly came out with several new products that ITT executives had blocked. Among them: Winterizer, a compound that protects lawns during the winter. ITT management, Seitz says, had feared that Winterizer might sabotage sales of other Scott lawn-care products. But it has become...