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...ailing George Habash, had taken a step toward a more moderate strategy. The P.F.L.P., after a seven-year absence, rejoined the governing executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization at its meeting in Damascus. TIME also learned that Habash, who had previously insisted that all of Israel must revert to a Palestinian state, would now accept "a Palestine" on the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip-at least "as a first step." The shift in strategy has not been announced by Habash. It is a quiet arrangement worked out within the P.F.L.P., after a great deal of argument...
...city took this action, the Pudding would have six months to make full payment on the taxes before Cambridge could foreclose. An article in the club's original declaration of trust stipulates that if the Pudding ever leaves its location the building will revert to Harvard, so the University would have the option of paying the taxes and taking over the building...
...accept the new President's offer to form a bipartisan coalition of "national unity." One reason: D.P. Leader Paul Ssemogerere, 48, was once imprisoned by Obote. Disruptive opposition could spell disaster. Says one envoy based in Uganda: "If Obote runs into a lot of trouble, he probably will revert to type." That would mean going back to the days when Obote suspended the constitution, clapped thousands of opponents in jail without trial and ruled in such a high-handed way the people originally danced in the streets when Amin ousted...
Does that mean the relationship revert to the cozy intimacy of former years, when the Attorney General sometimes too readily did the bidding of his boss? Replies Smith: "Obviously, the Justice Department has to be independent, but it is part of the Executive Branch. Independence relates only to certain kinds of activities; for instance, those involving the White House itself." People who know both Reagan and Smith are convinced that there is no cause for concern. Smith, one of three managing partners of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, the second largest law firm in Los Angeles, has a solid reputation for being...
...foreign currency control to fight Israel's punishing triple-digit inflation. On matters of foreign policy, both want to maintain close relations with the U.S. and honor the Camp David agreements. Rabin and Peres subscribe to the "Jordanian" option, under which most of the occupied West Bank would revert to joint Jordanian-Palestinian control...