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Dayan assured Vance that Israel was willing to participate in another round of talks. But there was some doubt whether Egypt would go along. Returning to Cairo from the Organization of African Unity summit in Khartoum (see following story), Egyptian President Anwar Sadat declared that for a new meeting to be held, "there should be some new elements from Israel...
...agitation," the charge used against Ginzburg, Petkus and Yuri Orlov. Jewish dissidents whose crime is to apply for an exit visa are sometimes caught in a Catch-22. Fired from their jobs, these "refuseniks" become liable to parasitism laws if they refuse to accept menial work. "Malicious hooliganism" laws round up other dissidents. In one hooliganism case, Refusenik Vladimir Slepak was convicted after hanging outside his apartment a banner demanding the right to leave the country...
Perhaps because of past difficulties with their own research, as well as the controversies it has stirred, Steptoe and Edwards remained quiet about their successful implanting through most of Lesley Brown's pregnancy. Even though fertility experts round the globe were generally aware of their research, no announcement was forthcoming from the British doctors until April, when a reporter closing in on the story got them to admit that the birth of a test-tube baby was at hand. Even so, Steptoe and Edwards were reluctant to give any details; they even withheld the patient's name for fear that...
There are, of course, those who believe otherwise, those who believe a newspaper should tailor itself to its audience, that it should strive for popularity and audience satisfaction above all else. Those people would say that the Summer School audience is different from the "year-round" Crimson readership, and that the paper should adjust accordingly. Those people are, unfortunately, destined to be unsatisfied not only with The Crimson, but with almost any other reputable newspaper...
...disastrous union had taken place half a century before, to a woman he felt had tricked him into an alliance that violated his basically homosexual nature. "You see, I was a quarter normal and three-quarters queer, but I tried to persuade myself it was the other way round. That was my greatest mistake. It flattered me that Syrie should throw herself at my feet. She told me that she cared for me more than anyone else in the world ... I was so vain and stupid I believed her . . . But she ruined my life...