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...establishment of a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital. This is the crux, and the main sticking point, of the whole plan. The Israelis reject the notion of an independent Palestinian state out of hand. The Palestinians insist on statehood as the sine qua non of any peace agreement. One possible compromise: the P.L.O. might conceivably accept an entity in confederation with Jordan in order to get around Israeli objections, but only after receiving solid assurances of full and independent statehood in the future...
...when he tried to drive in from Pakistan, he found the border closed tight. Nonetheless, he was able to get a perspective on developments inside Afghanistan by talking to Afghan rebel warriors near Peshawar and at Dara Adam Khail, a wide-open frontier town that, says DeVoss, "supplies the sine qua non of many an Afghan's wardrobe -guns." New Delhi Bureau Chief Marcia Gauger, whose experience with Muslim militance includes being besieged with 90 others at the burning U.S. embassy in Pakistan in November, managed to reach Kabul aboard a regular flight. Yet her stay was brief...
...greatest (and probably thinnest) pastry chef, while Segal plays her ex-husband, a fast-food maven whose philan dering broke up the marriage. It is not the actors' fault that they walk through the film with plastic smiles: the characters' debates over the merits of haute cui sine and Big Macs are as predictable as their final reconciliation. Besides, it strains credibility that this couple ever split up in the first place. How could any one married to Bisset even think of car rying on with another woman? It's easier to imagine Morley making...
MORE DISQUIETED than the man without a country, more stifled than the rebel without a cause, is the conductor without an orchestra. In the case of Leopold Stokowski, whose repeated misfortune it was to be without that sine qua non, the void had a peculiar poignancy. It didn't matter that Stokowski was perhaps the greatest innovative genius on the podium. Or that when he conducted, box office receipts soared. In the end his alleged ruthlessness would eclipse them, and prompt a dark ending to one orchestral link after another...
...summoned his wife and children to join him in London -all in fear of some musket volleys at Lexington. Judging from the few examples of his painting that have been seen since his European excursion, he may be in danger of acquiring that overobsequious, overdandified slickness that is the sine qua non of the European portraitist...