Word: ruling
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Both sides remain at loggerheads on the meaning of autonomy. The Israelis see self-rule for the inhabitants of the West Bank and Gaza as limited to local administrative matters. The Egyptians want the Palestinians to have broad judicial, executive and territorial rights. The final communique lamely predicted "an eventual agreement" and reiterated the hope that the West Bank Palestinians might soon join the autonomy talks...
...competition with A.P. should heighten. "We feel strongly that the country needs two vital news services," says Beaton. Alas, U.P.I. last week was unable to upstage its rival on one major story, though it definitely had the edge on inside information. Because of a Securities and Exchange Commission rule that prohibits a company from advertising a stock offering, U.P.I. could not report news of its forthcoming partnership sale...
According to the old common-law rule, a man who forces his wife to have sexual intercourse with him cannot be convicted of rape. The celebrated Rideout case in Salem, Ore., late last year resulted in the acquittal of Husband John accused of rape by his wife Greta. Attitudes are changing, however. Last week, in another Salem, in Massachusetts, James K. Chretien was convicted of raping his estranged wife Carmelina. He is believed to be the first American ever convicted of wife rape. Chretien was sentenced by Superior Court Judge Thomas R. Morse Jr. to three to five years...
...emphasize the role in it of my earlier novels, since that is the aspect of the novel I am most inclined to de-emphasize. My books are allowed to know one another, as children of the same father, but they must lead their lives in dependently. It is a rule in our house that one may recycle characters from one's earlier stories, but only if one does not presume even for a sentence that even one reader has even heard of those stories and characters, much less that anyone has read and remembers the stories in detail...
...levels. Le Duc Tho's large luminous eyes only rarely revealed the fanaticism that had induced him as a boy of 16 to join the anti-French Communist guerrillas. It was our misfortune that his cause should be to break our will and to establish Hanoi's rule over...