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...proposal is made up of 30 sections detailing in legal form a declaration of peace, exchange of ambassadors, resumption of trade relations and other workaday items. But there is no map showing what Israel's final borders might be and certainly nothing to indicate that Jerusalem will relent on its opposition to any negotiations with the Palestine Liberation Organization. Despite Israeli insistence that "everything is negotiable," a high-ranking official conceded that "there is nothing surprising" in the Dayan treaty...
...occuring. Antigona Perez, conscious of her namesake the Greek Antigone, has buried two brothers in defiance of the laws of the State. The dictator, Creon Molina, who claims to personify the "will of the people," is desperate to have Antigona confess. He realizes that if she does not relent, he is bound to execute her and, by doing so, is bound to create a martyr, a rallying point for the forces that might topple him. Creon sends Antigona's mother, priest and friend to her prison cell. They pressure her to act more ladylike, to resume her privileged position...
Dartmouth refused to relent, though, as it scored twice more before Kelley and Mangano teamed up for a third time at 16:20 to make the tally Dartmouth 6, Harvard...
...convicted of criminally negligent homicide in the gunshot death of her lover, Ski Champ Vladimir ("Spider") Sabich, was condemned to 30 days in the county jail. Although Longet pleaded with Judge George E. Lohr not to separate her from her three "very gentle and open" children, Lohr did not relent. To impose no jail sentence, he said, might "unduly depreciate the seriousness of the offense or undermine respect for the law." Longet chose not to appeal her conviction, but she told a phalanx of reporters that she had been unfortunate to fall "into the hands of a district attorney more...
Last week the government promised free textbooks for most black schoolchildren by 1978, and Soweto's parents and "Mayor" Thebehali hope the students will relent and drop the boycott. But SSRC is adamant. "We understand our parents' anguish," says a Soweto high school senior named Michael, who, as a known SSRC sympathizer, is on the run from the police and sleeps in a different house every night. "We know as well as they do that education is the tool of our liberation in the long run but not the second-class schooling we get under the Bantu Education...