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Israel sees the self-governing authority of the Palestinian entity as a council of some 15 members with purely regulatory powers; Egypt wants a legislative body of about 100 members that would be restricted only from voting independence for the entity or declaring war. Israel aims to retain its control over East Jerusalem and deny the Arabs in the sector the right to vote in West Bank elections; Egypt wants the opposite. Most of all, Egypt seeks an agreement that would be acceptable to at least the more moderate Palestinians; Israel is determined to permit no solution to the Palestinian...
...they retain a distinctive intensity, quiet and mannered, that goes with their aloof and somewhat ambiguous degree of abstraction. When Diebenkorn wants to set a curve flowing across the paper, its rhythm acquires a detached mellowness, a quality of reverie; this wandering of the hand is constantly checked and inflected by the vestiges of a grid, the angled cuts of straight drawing that survive from the Ocean Parks and are, in fact, a permanent feature of his style. Consequently, the Knoedler exhibition as a whole presents a display of control rare incurrent painting...
...antitrust pursuit of the world's largest corporation (1980 revenues: $51.7 billion). Under the agreement, Ma Bell-as the giant communications company is popularly known-will divest nearly two-thirds of its total assets by spinning off 22 local operating companies. But at the same time, it will retain its long-distance services and be able to enter new fields of data processing and telecommunications...
...firm, though, will still retain its more profitable long-distance service, its manufacturing arm, Western Electric, and the Bell Telephone Labs. Said Ellinghaus of the terms: "This was not our idea. We fought hard to keep the system intact. But the public has made it very clear that it wants more choice and more competition in the business...
...Justice Department filed the suit against A T & T in 1974 during the Ford Administration. It charged Ma Bell with violating a 1956 consent decree that had settled an earlier Justice Department antitrust action against the company. Under the terms of the 1956 settlement, AT&T was permitted to retain ownership of Western Electric, but it agreed at the same time to restrict its future business activities to local and long-distance telephone services...