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Initially, the P.L.O. had requested that al-Wazir be buried in Jordan at a site within view of the West Bank. King Hussein had consented, although Jordanian officials were concerned that the burial might spark demonstrations of support for the uprising from the two-thirds of the Jordanian population that is Palestinian. Then word came that al-Wazir would be interred in Syria, and Damascus invited all P.L.O. leaders to attend the funeral...
...mounting pressure from the student body for an increase in the school's minority faculty. At the same time, activists occupied school buildings at Williams College and the University of Vermont in protest over those schools' dismal records in the hiring of minority faculty. Penn State was the site of similar activity...
JERUSALEM--Israeli police stormed the holiest Islamic site in Jerusalem and pursued hundreds of Palestinians who threw stones after Friday noon prayers. Meanwhile, Soldiers shot an Arab to death in the Gaza Strip...
About 10,000 worshippers attended prayers on the Moslem Sabbath at Al Aqsa and the adjacent Dome of the Rock, the site from which the prophet Mohammed is said to have ascended to heaven on his horse...
...most violent confrontation on the sacred site since January 15, when up to 100 Palestinians were treated for the effects of tear gas and a police officer was wounded in a knife attack...